Sweet swan of Avon
Subtitle: did a woman write Shakespeare?
By: Robin P. Williams
Publisher: Wilton Circle Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, -- Countess of, -- 1561-1621; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Authorship
Description: Argues that the works attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke, a woman at the forefront of the literary movement in Elizabethan England, yet forbidden to write for the stage because of her gender.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-270) and index