Jodi Picoult saying Shakespeare was a woman is the worst kind of fan fiction
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Jodi Picoult saying Shakespeare was a woman is the worst kind of fan fiction

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Jodi Picoult, the American novelist, has a daft theory as to who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. For a change, it’s not Francis Bacon or the Earl of Oxford, or some other Oxbridge-educated contemporary of the Bard, who might have had a more sophisticated education or richer life experiences than Shakespeare. Sadly, many of the wilder speculations about the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays do still come from America; Mark Twain certainly wasn’t the first and won’t be the last. Dennis Fitzgerald Victoria, Australia When it comes to passports, airports are failing to Excel Since Brexit, Simon Calder has repeatedly highlighted airlines’ struggles to correctly apply the rules on passport dates.

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Jodi Picoult, the bestseller angering academics by suggesting Shakespeare was a woman: ‘It’s misogyny, absolutely’
2 months, 1 week ago

Jodi Picoult, the bestseller angering academics by suggesting Shakespeare was a woman: ‘It’s misogyny, absolutely’

The Independent  

I’ve been called a crackpot and a conspiracy theorist,” says the author Jodi Picoult. In it, Picoult argues that Shakespeare didn’t write his plays after all; that instead the real author was a woman of likely Jewish heritage called Emilia Bassano. Picoult’s novel, which is as breezy and readable as any of her previous works despite its erudite subject matter, …

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