Shakespeare's Heroines

Make way for the ladies from Shakespeare's best-loved plays as they take centre stage. Discover why the queen of the fairies fell in love with a donkey, how a shipwrecked girl convinced everyone she was a boy, how Lady Macbeth persuaded her husband to kill the king, and much more. With a fact file for each character, comic strips of their key scenes and their key quotes broken down, this book will be the ultimate fun and feminist take on Shakespeare's leading ladies.

Honor Cargill-Martin is an author, classicist, and art historian from London. She read Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Oxford, winning a scholarship and graduating with a first-class degree in 2019. She has masters degrees in Greek and Roman history and Italian Renaissance Art. She is currently studying for a doctorate focusing on political sex scandals in Ancient Rome at Christ Church College Oxford.