“... some older academic white male ... published a piece about how I am a crackpot conspiracy theorist. All I could think was, ‘You haven’t even read the book. How could you know?’”
That about sums up the nasty reaction from Shakespeare specialists. It’s wonderful that it was Elizabeth Winkler ’11 who inspired Jodi.
Yes, it stretches credulity that Shakespeare would have allowed his daughters to be illiterate. Why hasn’t this troubled traditional Shakespeareans? Harvard’s distinguished Shakespeare expert Marjorie Garber at least told Winkler she doesn’t care who the real Shakespeare was.
I’ve been researching the Shakespeare authorship question since 2002, and I’m delighted to count two such prominent Princeton alumnae as fellow authorship skeptics. I hope everyone will read Jodi’s novel, as well as Elizabeth’s book, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature.
“... some older academic white male ... published a piece about how I am a crackpot conspiracy theorist. All I could think was, ‘You haven’t even read the book. How could you know?’”
That about sums up the nasty reaction from Shakespeare specialists. It’s wonderful that it was Elizabeth Winkler ’11 who inspired Jodi.
Yes, it stretches credulity that Shakespeare would have allowed his daughters to be illiterate. Why hasn’t this troubled traditional Shakespeareans? Harvard’s distinguished Shakespeare expert Marjorie Garber at least told Winkler she doesn’t care who the real Shakespeare was.
I’ve been researching the Shakespeare authorship question since 2002, and I’m delighted to count two such prominent Princeton alumnae as fellow authorship skeptics. I hope everyone will read Jodi’s novel, as well as Elizabeth’s book, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature.