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 ...
…because everything thing that is good is because of black folk.
Can we just stop with all of this silliness?
Our founders knew much about women.
Well, shucks for the kids. Shakespeare mastery is now going to be mandatory for graduation.
William Shakespeare is black? Wow, how many blacks were in England at the time ..and of them, how many could read and write...
HAH! 🤣🤣😂😂😁😁
And years later they found out she discovered America first too.
Yeh, sure! 😆
Nonsense. Shakespeare didn’t use the n-word near enough to have been a black woman.
There’s an idiot on the ‘net who claims King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland was black.
First he claimed it was because his surname, Stewart, was a corruption of ‘svart,’ the Old Norse word for black. In truth, his ancestor adopted the title as his surname when David I, King of Scots, made him the first High Steward of Scotland (the stewart/steward thing is a relic of an era when spelling was not standardized).
When comments shot that bit of stupidity down, he invented another. He claimed it was because Charles II received the nickname ‘the Dubh’ (Scots Gaelic for “the black”) when he was a youngster. But if you’ve watched the TV series “Outlander,” you might have noted that Jamie Fraser is often called, ‘MacDubh,’ meaning “son of the black,” on account of his father was “the black,” a Highland honorific for a very formidable individual (= a badass).
As I read the headline I can’t help but assert that a writer that doesn’t know the difference between “and” and “an” has no business writing an article that includes the words “William Shakespeare”.
Nobody is really expected to believe it — but pretending to believe it is a loyalty test.
I’d like to see the evidence for this conclusion. Is there any historical documentation to even suggest this?
What good is society having this “educated” clown? Is there anything she can do other than write more stupid books as a college professor?
We wuz shakespeeerz
Soon to be a part of the DNC's official platform, not to mention ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, etc.
First Alexander Hamilton turned Black, now William Shakespeare. Who's next?
I’ve also seen idiots who go around claiming that both Mozart and Beethoven were black. Who knew that the finale of the 9th symphony was meant to be sung as shuck and jive?
So a foundational canon of the “white patriarchy” was written by a black woman? These morons really don’t think things through.
WTH is LSE???????????
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