Extract: By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
1581. Emilia Bassano is allowed no voice of her own, but finds a way
to bring her work to the stage secretly. Yet by paying a man for the use
of his name, she will write her own out of history. His name? William
Shakespeare. Now. Playwright Melina Green is determined to see one
of her shows make the stage, but it appears a woman’s voice is still
worth less than a man’s. Women have long been written out of history,