 Judith is portrayed in William Black 's Judith Shakespeare : Her Love Affairs and Other Adventures , published serially in Harper 's Magazine in 1884 . She is one of the main characters in Edward Bond 's 1973 play Bingo , which portrays the last years of her father , in retirement in Stratford on Avon . She also appears in one of the final stories in Neil Gaiman 's graphic novel , The Sandman . Gaiman compared Judith with the character Miranda from Shakespeare 's The Tempest . She is the subject of the 2003 novel My Father Had a Daughter : Judith Shakespeare 's Tale by Grace Tiffany . The radio play Judith Shakespeare by Nan Woodhouse portrays her as " a loner , yearning to be a part of her playwright father 's life " . She travels to London to join him and has a troubling affair with a young aristocrat . " Shakespeare 's Daughter " is the title of a short story by Mary Burke that was short @-@ listed for a 2007 Hennessy / Sunday Tribune Irish Writer prize . 
