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001			1412197648
003			OCoLC
005			20240820124428.0
008			240119t20242024nyua b 001 1 eng
010			_a2024000802
020			_a9780593497210
035			_a(OCoLC)1412197648
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dBRL
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3566.I372 _bB9 2024
082	0	0	_a813/.54 _223/eng/20240130
100	1		_aPicoult, Jodi, _d1966- _eauthor. _96964
245	1	0	_aBy any other name : _ba novel / _cJodi Picoult.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBallantine Books, _c[2024].
264		4	_c©2024.
300			_a525 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aAs an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has never recovered, although she has just completed a work that she thinks is her best yet. It is based on the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, the first published female poet in England - and rumored to be the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets - but whom some scholars suspect may be the real author of a number of his plays. Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, and then her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits it to a festival under a male pseudonym. In 1581, the young orphan Emilia Bassano is being raised in the ways of English aristocracy by the Baron Willoughby and his sister. Her lessons on languages, reading, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling. But like most women of her day, she has no control over her fate, and is ripped from her old life and forced to become a courtesan to Lord Hunsdon, a man knighted by Queen Elizabeth as the Lord Chamberlain in charge of all theater in London. Though she has no other freedoms, and inspired by the work of the most brilliant playwrights of the time, she pseudonymously sets her own pen to paper to tell a story. Told in dual intertwining timelines, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. As Emilia alters the course of her life and therefore the course of the world, she blazes a trail. Centuries later, will Melina face the same terrible fate - to have her work celebrated, but only at the price of letting another take credit?
600	1	0	_aLanyer, Aemilia _vFiction. _918008
650		0	_aWomen dramatists _vFiction. _918009
650		0	_aWomen _vFiction. _910408
655		7	_aBiographical fiction. _2lcgft. _9975
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c29990 _d29990