631 Shakespeare's Sisters (with Ramie Targoff) | My Last Book with Sarah Gristwood

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Books, Arts, History

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Recently, we talked to novelist Jodi Picoult about her contention that many of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare were actually written by a woman named Emilia Bassano (a.k.a. Aemilia Lanyer). But even as that compelling theory awaits definitive proof, we already know of several women - Shakespeare's contemporaries - who overcame obstacles and wrote their way through a male-dominated literary world. In this episode, Jacke talks to scholar Ramie Targoff (Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance) about the women who defied the odds and defined themselves as writers at a time when women were legally the property of men. PLUS Jacke talks to Sarah Gristwood (Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries) about her choice for the last book she will ever read. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, today on the podcast, a look at Shakespeare's spiritual sisters, the women who wrote the
0:15.0	Renaissance with expert Ramey Targoff. Plus another expert in
0:19.6	forgotten women writers Sarah Gristwood joins us to discuss her choice for the last book she will ever read.
0:27.0	That's coming up today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go.
0:35.0	September has rolled in and it's an election year.
0:40.0	How do these things keep coming up so fast?
0:44.0	And it's also football season, why does that take so long to get here?
0:48.5	You'd think it would be the other way around, wouldn't you?
0:52.0	Something that we get every year would seem to come quicker than something
0:55.6	that shows up every four years? Well, such is the nature of joy and trauma, I suppose.
1:02.1	Okay, speaking of waiting and the nature of time we've been
1:06.4	waiting for a book like this one for some time now it's all about the women of the
1:11.3	Renaissance the women writers of the Renaissance.
1:14.1	We've really been immersed in Shakespeare these past few weeks haven't we?
1:18.2	Which I'm not going to apologize for that.
1:21.6	This is the History of Literature Podcast by an English speaking host and
1:27.0	Shakespeare is the big kahuna of English literature, the boss.
1:35.0	There's no getting around the influence of those plays.
1:38.4	They're like a sun.
1:41.0	It provides a lot of heat and light, but don't sleep on its gravitational pull either, or the
1:46.9	shadows that it creates.
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