Reading "Thinking about Shakespeare's Sister" Virginia Woolf
-In Virginia Woolf's "Thinking about Shakespeare's Sister," Shakespeare's sister's first play met with very poor reviews because she was a woman.

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In Virginia Woolf's essay, "Shakespeare's Sister" from "A Room of One's Own," Woolf imagines a sister for Shakespeare named Judith, who is equally talented but whose potential is stifled by the societal constraints of her time. Woolf does not detail a specific instance of Judith writing a play that receives poor reviews; instead, she uses the hypothetical story to discuss the broader limitations placed on women in the arts during the Elizabethan era.

Reading "Thinking About Shakespeare's Sister" Virginia Woolf