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Portrait miniature of an unknown woman, possibly Emilia Lanier Bassano, c. 1590, by Nicholas Hilliard [1]. The Emilia Lanier theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that the English poet Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) is the actual author of at least part of the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare.
Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s.
A category containing female characters in William Shakespeare's works. ... Women in Shakespeare's works; B. Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) Bianca (Othello)
This is because when Shakespeare was writing for the early modern stage, young. ... Why weren’t women allowed to act in Shakespeare’s plays? – Anastasia, Herdon, Virginia, 15 The role of ...
Emilia Lanier [a] (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) was the first woman in England to assert herself as a professional poet, [2] through her volume Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews, 1611).
Shakespeare's writing features extensive wordplay of double entendres and clever rhetorical flourishes. [27] Humour is a key element in all of Shakespeare's plays. His works have been considered controversial through the centuries for his use of bawdy punning, [28] to the extent that "virtually every play is shot through with sexual puns."
According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies is a 2023 nonfiction book by journalist Elizabeth Winkler about the Shakespeare authorship question. The book uses journalism and literary criticism to explore the possibility that the works of Shakespeare were written by someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon .