By any other name
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Fiction.

Duration: 18:25:59.

Read by Billie Fulford-Brown.

Read by Nicholas Guy Smith.

Read by Simon Vance.

Read by Andrew Fallaize.

Read by Jayne Entwistle.

Read by John Lee.

Read by Jodi Picoult.

Read by Joe Jameson.

Read by Steve West.

Read by Laura Benanti.

In Elizabethan London, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her education has endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but still she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees the theatre, Emilia discovers the power of stories to beguile audiences. Secretly, she forms a plan to bring a play of her own to the stage - by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work. In modern-day Manhattan, playwright Melina Green finds a woman's voice is still worth less than a man's. But, inspired by the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, Melina takes a lesson from history and submits a play under a male pseudonym ...

Adult.

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