Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies review " in search of the bard
Diligent scholarship meets provocation and irreverence in Elizabeth Winkler's highly entertaining quest to uncover the 'real' Shakespeare In 2019, Elizabeth Winkler, a young writer at the Wall Street Journal, published a provocative essay in the Atlantic under the headline "Was Shakespeare a Woman?" In it she examined the case for seeing the hand of Emilia Bassano Lanier, a poet of Italian heritage born in the 16th c…