by Jinny Webber | Sep 4, 2025 | Bronze Age Greece, Gender fluidity, Greek gods and goddesses, Greek myth, Metamorphoses |
Imagining Bronze Age Greece The challenge of writing historical fiction is getting into the minds of people living in very different times from our own. Visiting archeological ruins of ancient civilizations tempts one to imagine those places in their glory when...
by Jinny Webber | Apr 26, 2025 | Bronze Age Greece, Greek myth, Metamorphoses, Uncategorized |
Serpent Visions is set in Bronze Age Greece, approximately 1300 BCE, when bards and rhapsodes spoke and sang old tales to spellbound audiences. Teiresias, the blind soothsayer of Thebes, knows he will die soon. He must entrust his longtime secret story to the right...
by Jinny Webber | Feb 16, 2024 | Uncategorized |
My connection to Shakespeare’s England remains strong, but for now the focus has shifted to the Bronze Age. Serpent Visions, a Novel of Teiresias brings to life the myth of that gender-changing seer in pre-Homeric Greece. During this pre-literate era, epics were...
by Jinny Webber | Feb 20, 2023 | Sex and Gender in |
Time for a transition from posts related to Shakespeare’s England to ancient Greece before the Trojan war. Like Shakespeare who leaned on the Roman poet Ovid, I use his Metamorphoses as a springboard. Though writing in Latin in 8 CE, the Roman poet Publius Ovidius...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 4, 2022 | Uncategorized |
Bedtrick is very much alive: you or your local bookstore can order it from http://cuidono.com/Webber_Bedtrick.html Until now this blog has focused on Shakespeare’s era. His favorite source for stories and metaphors was the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid, a...
by Jinny Webber | Jun 4, 2022 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
The final scene of Bedtrick takes place on a summer’s day on the grand country estate Wilton House. On its broad terrace Shakespeare’s company presents his woodland comedy As You Like It for a noble company, including newly crowned King James I. The preceding years...
by Jinny Webber | Feb 17, 2022 | Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Through history, women have successfully passed as male: no hormones, no surgery, only perhaps herbs to end or slow menstrual periods. During the American Civil War, some 200 soldiers who died in battle or otherwise later identified were female. Who can blame them?...
by Jinny Webber | Feb 8, 2022 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
To coincide with publication of BEDTRICK, I was asked to contribute to the ‘Five Best’ list of https://shepherd.com. It’s a terrific site for finding five of an authors’ favorite books on their subject. I chose novels that relate to William Shakespeare one way or...
by Jinny Webber | Nov 6, 2021 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England, Shakespeare and Fiction, The Man-Woman |
The release date for Bedtrick will be November 16. Pre-order copies online or at your favorite book shop. Summary: During the tumultuous late days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Alexander Cooke, born female, successfully passes as male to play Shakespeare’s...
by Jinny Webber | Sep 21, 2021 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage |
The third of Sander Cooke’s important female friends is Amelia Bassano Lanyer (Her name is variously spelled: Amelia, Emilia, or Æmelia and Lanyer or Lanier.) The Bassano family were musicians in the court of Henry VIII, natives of Venice and conversos, that is,...
