<b>Join American journalist and critic <a href="https://journalistwinkler.com">Elizabeth Winkler</a> (<em>Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies</em>) and novelist <a href="https://twitter.com/natashajouk">A. Natasha Joukovsky</a> (<i>The Portrait of a Mirror</i>) for a salon exploring the secular religiosity behind literature's biggest taboo: the Shakespeare authorship question. </b>

In celebration of the paperback publication of <em>Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies</em>, we will dive into the book's central question of historical truth. How and why did the theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name became such a fraught topic when the evidence on which Stratfordian attribution rests is so shaky?

Topics discussed will include:
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 	<li>Leading authorship theories and rebuttals</li>
 	<li>The fictionalization of biography</li>
 	<li>The metamorphosis of English professors into Shakespearian high priests</li>
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<h4><strong>Recommended Readings:</strong></h4>
<a href="https://lithub.com/doubting-shakespeares-identity-isnt-a-conspiracy-theory/">"Doubting Shakespeare's Identity Isn't a Conspiracy Theory"</a> by Elizabeth Winkler

<a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2023/11/first-folio-secrets-shakespeares-stupid-grotesque-portrait">"The secrets of Shakespeare's 'stupid,' 'grotesque' portrait"</a> by Elizabeth Winkler

<strong>This event will be recorded.</strong>
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