Was Shakespeare a woman? An aristocrat? A government spy? Mark Rylance joined Elizabeth Winkler for a heretical investigation into the Shakespeare authorship controversy.
Elizabeth Winkler
Elizabeth Winkler is a journalist and book critic whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Economist, among other publications. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her master’s in English literature from Stanford University. Her essay “Was Shakespeare a Woman?”, first published in The Atlantic, was selected for The Best American Essays 2020. She lives in Washington, DC.
Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London for 10 years (1995-2005). Theatre roles include: Countess Olivia in Twelfth Night; Richard III; and Johnny “Rooster” Byron in Jerusalem; Valere in La Bête and Robert in Boeing-Boeing. Mark Rylance film work includes three films with Steven Spielberg, Bridge of Spies, The BFG, and Ready Player One. Ciro Guerra’s film Waiting for the Barbarians, Dunkirk, Trial of the Chicago 7, The Institute Benjamenta, Don’t Look Up, The Phantom of the Open and The Outfit and most recently Bones and All. His television appearances include Wolf Hall. In 2017 he was knighted for services to the Theatre.
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