Posted on 01/30/2026 8:58:36 PM PST by MarlonRando
William Shakespeare was a 'black Jewish woman', a new book has claimed.
The real playwright is identified as the historical figure Emilia Bassano in The Real Shakespeare, by an LSE graduate and feminist historian.
She was a poet with connections to the Tudor court and wrote the Shakespearean canon of plays using the pen-name 'Shakespeare', according to the book.
But her work is said to have been stolen from an uneducated interloper - William Shakespeare - from Stratford-upon-Avon.
The book's author Irene Coslet argues that the idea of a 'white' genius was preferred to Bassano's identity as a black female playwright.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What an utter pantload!
You can tell by the writing itself that it cannot possibly be true. Its “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Not “Romelda! Where you be at?”
You are obsessed with that poster and in effect stalking him by posting about him on thread after thread that he isn’t on and without pinging him, carrying personal grudges and dragging arguments from thread to thread is against FR rules.
Had to check the byline, I thought this was the “Bee.”
Snow White - Don’t forget about Snow White and the Dwarves too.
This can’t be true. Why you ask? Because all of Shakespeare plays were written in cursive.
The English are black. The English have always been black. Obey.
Like the article years ago by the Daily Fail that claimed Bill Cosby and Michael Gorbachev (of the Soviet Union) were blood related.
The article went on to say that their DNA traced back to the earliest days of humanity, it proved a family kinship. Sort of like saying since Cosby and Gorbachev were descended from Adam and Eve, it proves they are related.
You started my day off with a good laugh.
I always suspected that. She was writing from her mud hut with raccoon bones pens.
If one remembers, the old Soviet Union’s claim to the glories of Russia and Communism was that virtually everything of note discovered or created in history was done so by a Russian/Communist.
More revisionist stupidity.
Shakespeare had a Catholic background which he kept under wraps in Protestant England and may have been secretly educated by the Jesuits.
She was also a transvestite; naturally, with all great writers of the English language, gay.
I never blame black people for doing things like this. They don’t bring this crap up for the most part. Black people don’t run hollywood either. They don’t make the movies with the race-swapping. Black people didn’t produce the Wakanda movie. I love Disney— they made wakanda a space-faring nation of black folks who have spears, but they’re lasers. They have spaceships with lion skin rugs. It’s literally the hebrew version of scifi Africa.
We’re all black now.
— Rachel Dolezal
Feminist history: the hits just keep coming.
Feminist history: the hits just keep coming.
I heard a cleaver black guy invented the “dime bag”.
Amazing how blacks did all this brilliant stuff, but it was always “stolen” from them.
Not new. During the Obama fad, African Muslims claimed that they invented everything attributed to western civilization. The feminist author didn’t offer much evidence other than Shakespeare was not educated. If this claim is true will universities offer lit classes on Shakespeare? I doubt it.
Never leave out Jesus!
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