The case for Emilia Bassano as Shakespeare

Who was this woman writing “immortal work” in the same year that Shakespeare’s name first appeared in print? So did Virginia Woolf, even as she sighed over the obstacles that would have confronted a female Shakespeare: “Undoubtedly, I thought, looking at the shelf where there are no plays by women, her work would have gone unsigned.” Who was this woman writing “immortal work” in the same year that Shakespeare’s name first appeared in print, on the poem “Venus and Adonis,” a scandalous parody of masculine seduction tales (in which the woman forces herself on the man)?

Source: www.theatlantic.com