There’s a raging debate about the authorship of William Shakespeare’s plays. So little is known about his life that scholars struggle to connect the man to the plays. Host Annie O’Brien sat down with Elizabeth Winkler, the author of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, to discuss possible female candidates for Shakespeare and why some scholars think the plays could be written by a woman.

If you want to learn more about the authorship debate– specifically the possibility of a female candidate– you can purchase “Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature” here.

This podcast was hosted and produced by Annie O’Brien. Aulx Studio