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Book review: By Any Other Name argues that a woman wrote Shakespeare’s plays
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Through her propulsive narrative in By Any Other Name, author Jodi Picoult explores the difficulties of being a woman in publishing.
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By Any Other Name
By Jodi Picoult
Fiction/Penguin Random House/Paperback/544 pages/$23.31
William Shakespeare has always been a polarising figure, so it seems. To modern readers, he is either a creative genius or a spectre who haunts bored students with his seemingly unending oeuvre.
