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Was Shakespeare a Woman?
Culture
The authorship controversy has yet to surface a compelling alternative to the man buried in Stratford.
Perhaps that’s because, until recently, no one was looking in the right place. The case for Emilia Bassano.
By Elizabeth Winkler
Updated at 6:33 p.m. ET on June 7, 2019.
On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud.
Emilia saint amand biography of william shakespeare
We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our memories of the play’s best lines. I pulled up Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy on my iPhone. “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” I read, thrilled once again by the incantatory power of the verse.
I remembered where I was when I first heard those lines: in my 10th-grade English class, startled out of my adolescent stupor by this woman rebelling magnificently and malevolently against her submissive status. “Make thick my blood, / Stop up th’