By Any Other Name
by Jodi Picoult
Book Overview
Playwright Melina Green slams into a male-dominated theater after critic Jasper Tolle torpedoes her work, so she lets her best friend Andre pose as the author of her incendiary new play. In Elizabethan England, Emilia Bassano threads court intrigue as a poet and the Lord Chamberlain’s mistress, secretly composing the lines history credits to Shakespeare; both women confront the machinery that erases them, staking identity, love, and legacy to claim their names and their art.
This guide delivers chapter-by-chapter breakdowns, incisive character studies, thematic explorations, and curated quotations with crisp commentary. It equips you to see the novel’s structure, voices, and ideas with fresh clarity.