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 | Aug 17, 2021 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
Review by Leslie Carroll, who writes under the pen name Juliet Grey “O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping!” So exclaims Celia to her banished cousin Rosalind in Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT,...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 26, 2021 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
This series of blog posts on Bedtrick should probably have begun with an announcement for the book itself. This link will take you to the publisher’ website: https://cuidono.com/Webber_Bedtrick.html From 1599 until her death in 1603, Queen Elizabeth’s rule...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 26, 2021 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
Alexander Cooke is listed as one of the players in Shakespeare’s First Folio and appears in various other sources of the time. His death in 1614 is documented, the fact that he fathered children, and the speculation that he played Shakespeare’s principal female...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 10, 2021 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
“Bedtrick: sex with a partner who pretends to be someone else.” Introduction, Wendy Doniger, The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, University of Chicago, 2000. Two of Shakespeare’s plays, All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure, make use of the plot...
