Böcker av Grace Tiffany

For readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller, a deeply engrossing work of historical fiction-a tale of a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger.   At the age of sixty-one, Judith Shakespeare, a midwife-apothecary and twin of the long-dead Hamnet, must flee provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid arrest for witchcraft. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and child who have been displaced by civil war-the bloody seventeenth-century strife between Royalists and Roundheads. Judith is also leaving her marriage, which has foundered since the wrenching loss of two adult sons to the plague. The sequel to the author's My Father Had a Daughter, a tale of Judith in her youth, The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter revisits this character for the ages-Shakespeare's sharp-tongued, witty youngest child, no less feisty in her maturity. Four-hundred years after Judith's death, Grace Tiffany brings her back onto center stage. Judith's latest tale offers profound insights-into friendship, motherhood, marriage, religious extremism, and war-which remain resoundingly true today.

Celebrated Argentine author Jorge Luís Borges found Shakespeare's work so compelling that he not only fictively imagined the life of the playwright in two short stories, but also fashioned other stories and poems into adaptations of or meditations on Shakespeare's plays, wrote essays about Shakespeare, and discussed him frequently in interviews, university lectures, and public talks. In this volume, Grace Tiffany gathers together all these varied writings and conversations. A critical edition, Borges on Shakespeare contains a lengthy introduction by its editor; annotated Borges stories, poems, essays, and transcribed talks (including his famous tales "Everything and Nothing" and "Shakespeare's Memory"); essay contributions and one piece of fiction by Borges scholars; and a bibliography. Borges' "Shakespeare" material has heretofore been available to readers only in scattered sources. Combining them in one, Borges on Shakespeare directly addresses Borges' lifelong engagement with Shakespeare, an author of tremendous significance to his own work and thought, and renders some Borges works in English translation for the first time. Borges on Shakespeare will be useful to scholars of Shakespeare, Borges, and comparative literature and drama, as well as to the general reader who enjoys Shakespeare, Borges' fiction, or both.