If I Should Tell My History

Summary:

Countess Olivia has just married Sebastiano accidentally: She thought he was his twin sister Viola, when Viola was pretending to be a boy. Meanwhile, Viola loves a man in love with Olivia, and Sebastiano’s best friend is in love with him. Has the course of love ever run less smooth?

“The L Word meets Shakespeare”

If I Should Tell My History continues the story of Shakespeare’s classic play Twelfth Night from the perspective of the three women the play leaves silent: Viola, Countess Olivia, and Olivia’s best friend Maria. Now from the recently-discovered manuscripts of an English aristocrat comes this gripping story of Sapphic love and feminine courage.

Lovingly compiled by feminist scholar Dr. Hannah Miyamoto, If I Should Tell My History is the second installment of a tale of women that love women, men that love men, and even an intersexed man that looks like a woman, in a 16th century Italy wracked by treachery, murder, and war.

CONTENT GUIDANCE: Consequences of Sexual Assault.