Grace Tiffany, My Father Had a Daughter

If your twin brother died in an accident that was probably your fault, and your father turned the incident into a farcical stage play that was the hit of the season, you’d probably have some issues about that. Angsty teen Judith Shakespeare is aghast when she runs across a draft of Twelfth Night, and hatches a plan to publicly shame dad on stage during the play’s first performance. Tiffany, an English professor and Shakespeare expert, uses Judith’s (mostly fictional) story to cast a light on the problems of smart, ambitious women in the Elizabethan age, and imaginatively recreates life at Shakepeare’s Globe Theater. But it might be most enlightening for her take on the private character of the Bard, still almost totally unknown despite the long shadow cast by his works.