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Shakespeare's Sister

The Smiths

Musical Composition

March 1985

United Kingdom

"Shakespeare's Sister" takes its name and idea from Woolf's thoughts in A Room of One's Own that if Shakespeare had had a sister as passionate and smart as him, she wouldn’t have had the same opportunities as her brother because she was a woman.

Snail, WAA

Released 18 March 1985

Recorded January 1985

Studio Utopia Studios, Primrose Hill, LondonGenreRockabilly

Length 2:09

Label Rough Trade

Songwriter(s) Johnny Marr, Morrissey

Producer(s) The Smiths

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