“Shakespeare’s Sister” was released as a single in March 1985, and later appeared on the Louder Than Bombs compilation.

The title comes from Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, where she imagines a fictional sister of Shakespeare called Judith, who — despite being as intelligent as her brother — would have no chance of getting the same education or recognition:

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

The song’s title in turn inspired the 90s pop rock duo Shakespears Sister.

The AV Club did a write-up of the song for a Hear This feature.