以任何其他名字 By Any Other Name

基本信息

Format:Paperback 544 pages

Publisher:Random House USA Inc

Imprint:Ballantine Books Inc.

ISBN:9780593874714

Published:20 Aug 2024

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

年轻剧作家梅丽娜·格林刚刚创作了一部新作品，灵感来自她伊丽莎白时代的祖先埃米莉亚·巴萨诺的生活。但在戏剧界，女性的竞争环境并不公平，这部作品不太可能上演。当梅丽娜怀疑自己是否敢再次冒险失败时，她的好朋友从她手中夺走了决定权，用男性笔名将剧本提交给一个节日。

1581 年，年轻的埃米莉亚·巴萨诺是英国贵族的监护人。语言、历史和写作课程赋予了她敏锐的才智和讲故事的天赋，但和她那个时代的大多数女性一样，她没有自己的声音。埃米莉亚被迫成为宫务大臣的情妇，宫务大臣负责监督英国的所有戏剧制作，她亲眼目睹了剧作家的话语如何打动观众。她开始制定一个计划，秘密将自己的戏剧搬上舞台——通过付钱让一位名叫威廉·莎士比亚的演员来担任她作品的主角。

《以任何其他名字》以相互交织的时间线展开，讲述了两个女人的雄心、勇气和欲望，她们决心创造美好的事物，尽管她们面临着偏见。作家是否应该不惜一切代价让她的故事流传下去……无论付出什么代价？这部非凡的小说植根于原始历史资料，确保艾米莉亚·巴萨诺的名字不再被遗忘。

Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.

In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a close female to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.

Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten.

作者简介

乔迪·皮考特是《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜前列的作家，著有 28 部小说，包括《希望你在这里》、《双向之书》、《一束光》、《小大事》、《离开时间》和《我的姐姐的守护者》，她与女儿萨曼莎·范·利尔共同创作了两部青少年小说《字里行间》和《书页之外》。皮考特现居新罕布什尔州。

她的下一部小说《疯狂的蜂蜜》与詹妮弗·芬尼·博伊兰合著，将于 10 月 11 日上市。

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.

Her next novel, Mad Honey, co-written with Jennifer Finney Boylan, is available on October 11th.