02708cam a2200397 i 4500 1528985007 TxAuBib 20240827120000.0 240119s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024000802 9780593497210 HRD 30.00 059349721X HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Picoult, Jodi, 1966-, author. By any other name [BOOK] : a novel / Jodi Picoult. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, 2024. ©2024. 525 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym. In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work. Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face.". 20240827. Lanyer, Aemilia Fiction. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Fiction. Women dramatists Fiction. Women Fiction. Women Social conditions 16th century Fiction. Playwriting Fiction. Theaters Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction.