nObama is a man!
Posted on 05/28/2008 4:21:43 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
JERUSALEM: Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman who had disguised to get her work published in Elizabethan London where original literature from women was not acceptable, an expert has contended.
The woman, Amelia Bassano Lanier Bassano, was of Italian descent and lived in England as a Marrano. She has been known only as the first woman to publish a book of poetry ( Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum in 1611) and as a candidate for "the dark lady" referred to in the sonnets, daily Ha'aretz reported.
The theory rests largely on the circumstances of Bassano's life, which John Hudson, an expert in Shakespeare, contends matches much better to the content of Shakespeare's work.
The researcher has also identified technical similarities between the language used in Bassano's known poetry and that used in Shakespeare's verse.
The conginitive scientist has located several clues in the text like recently noted Jewish allegories and the statistically significant appearance of Amelia Bassano Lanier's various names in the plays, which he says point to her as the only convincing candidate as the author of Shakespeare's work.
When asked if this is the biggest literary hoax ever pulled off or the worst example of a man stealing a woman's glory, the researcher dubbed it a "stratagem".
"I don't think this is a hoax. It is a stratagem she used to get her work published, as many other women have done, by having their work published under a man's name. In Elizabethan London, women could not write original literature at all, let alone plays, so this was her only option", Hudson said in an interview published in Ha'aretz .
"The example I use is that of the Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria. In order that his name might be known, the architect Sostratus had his name carved on the stone base, then covered over with a piece of plaster with a dedication to the king. In time the plaster fell away, revealing the architect's name", Hudson said.
"Amelia's strategy was to leave behind a preposterous case for William Shakespeare, which has now fallen away, revealing the true creator who is now at last visible", the cognitive scientist added.
He is so convinced of Bassano's authorship that he formed a theater company, The Dark Lady Players, to bring out, through performance, the true meanings of the plays as, he argues, Bassano intended them.
Hudson holds numerous degrees from various prestigious academic institutions, in a range of specialties from Shakespeare and dramaturgical theory to sociology and anthropology.
He has spent most of his career as a cognitive scientist, restructuring the communications industry and inventing new industry models, exactly what he is now doing with Shakespeare.
Not only that, but Queen Elizabeth I was actually a black man in drag.
> JERUSALEM: Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman who had disguised to get her work published in Elizabethan London where original literature from women was not acceptable, an expert has contended.
Crikey! It never ends!
Shakespeare as a Jewish woman!! Guffaw! My fat arse! Bollix to that bloody rubbish.
Next we will be hearing that Churchill was a sexually-frustrated muslim communist transvestite.
Hmmm...The Jewish Bardess of Avon sure had me fooled - she didn’t write like a chick.
wow, Liz had some great makeup!
nObama is a man!
Just not buying this - yet. The ‘female’ assumption is not new; just the names change; or so it seems.
I suppose this is a translation problem, but finding clues in text must be hard for a scientist like that...
On a recent PBS biography they said Bill was from a Catholic family and a secret Catholic himself.
I believe something is being lost in the translation. I think he claim is that it was attributed to Shakespeare, not that there was an actual disguise.
Remove the colon and you get:
Shakespeare was a woman Expert
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Yep, that was take on it too.
Alexander Hamilton was Black, because he was born in Jamaica. (I heard this one from "experts" years ago)
Actually, His wife was a man and his daughter was a son, and you are not cousins, but “cousines”. Hate to surprise you like this, but the man is an anthropologist, after all, and he must be right. He restructured the communications industry, too, so he may be related to Algore, and you know what happens when you contradict those people. So suck it up and go pick out new underwear with a friend.
Joan of Arc was really a gender confused male with a little winky.
> On a recent PBS biography they said Bill was from a Catholic family and a secret Catholic himself.
(Big Grin!) and I am actually an Uzi-toting buxom brunette teetering upon gleaming crimson high heels atop impossibly long legs that go all the way up to my neck, in Spandex Wonder-Woman leotards, with a great big white Ultra-Brite grin and a nickel-plated Colt 1911 .45 well-hidden amid my 44-double-D cleavage and an Irish lilt to my melodic voice...
Your a pretty good male writer yourself!
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