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Posted on 06/27/2026 1:11:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The author of a new book about William Shakespeare is claiming that the works of the famed playwright were actually written by a black, Jewish woman. The book, The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby by Irene Coslet, argues that Shakespeare was actually Emilia Bassano, a dark-skinned Jewish woman who was an English poet during the Elizabethan period. The Amazon description for the book, which says it is set to be released on March 30, questions if Shakespeare was indeed “a white man from Stratford.”
“Debate still rages over the identity of the most beloved poet of all time and ‘father’ of the English-speaking world,” the description reads. “Generations of researchers have tried to dismantle the myth of the Stratford man. Now, in this intriguing and well-documented book, Irene Coslet conclusively demonstrates that Shakespeare was not a man, but a woman: a dark-skinned lady, of Jewish origin, born into a family of Court musicians from Venice, and the mother of the English-speaking world. Her name was Emilia Bassano.”
According to the description, Coslet’s conclusions are based on “re-examination of often-overlooked historical documents, shrewd, chilling, and profound, this volume offers extensive evidence that Emilia was the author of the canon.” The description also says the book is not just about the debate over to whom the writings of Shakespeare should be attributed, but “about the condition of women at the time Shakespeare was writing. It explains that feminism already existed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. It reveals not only that Shakespeare was a woman, but also that she defended women. It reintegrates Emilia in the context of the time, for example, by exploring the relationship between Emilia and Queen Elizabeth I.”
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This assertion that Shakespeare was actually a Black, Jewish, female poet has so many things wrong with it, this just has to be a parody of some kind. Of course Shakespeare was a poet, but the rest is totally inconsistent with the period in which he lived. England was still a largely isolated and insular country in the 16th Century, and none of these concepts about a man actually being a woman, or that either a Jew or an sub-Saharan African would rise to prominence in that time period in England, would have been tolerated.
This is what comes of trying to impose 21st Century thinking on other times in history.
Oh, please.
The kind of stuff you used to get in the form of a stack of mimeographed pages sent to you through the mail when you sent a self stamped self addressed envelope to certain PO Boxes.
And stuff even those guys would have written off as to far fetched.
It’s always good to reference the classics.
Oops 😬 let’s hit the right thread LOL 🤣
No... Klingon!!!
My bad. Merchant of Venice of couse
Di rime, di meter, di pure word.........
Translation from urban/pidgin:
The rime, the meter, the pure word...
No wonder it is so liberal. Anything to push Jewish and Black with Shakespeare works for me.
Wow, this is really bad news for Francis Bacon.
Indeed.
It must be tough to find a fresh topic for a thesis
Smiles. Plus an amputee with bipolar hallucinations due to being given only a B in ethnic studies
Apparently this claim has been around for about 20 years. Here a wikipedia article on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Lanier_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship
As with Shakespeare himself, there’s no surviving image of Emalia Lanier (nee Bassano) so this most recent author couldn’t resist adding the “dark skinned” detail. I mean, if you’re going to go DEI, might as well REALLY go DEI.
How long till Hollywood makes a Biopic of Shakespeare starring Cynthia Erivo?
Obviously right wing propaganda. No claims that she was a trans lesbian.
Not a new claim, still moonbattery.
Look how black!
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17163376/aemilia-lanyer
(Lanier)
Well put.
earlier on FR:
Dame Judi Dench stuns everyone with her Shakespeare sonnet reading
The Graham Norton Show - BBC (#29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_X1dbO-quI&t=90
In Search of Shakespeare - Extra Scenes (BBC)
(Michael Wood outtake about Marlowe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46KQ4eP2FN0&t=895
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