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According to the description, Coslet’s conclusions are based on “re-examination of often-overlooked historical documents, shrewd, chilling, and profound, this volume offers extensive evidence that Emilia was the author of the canon.”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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And he was a furry strung out on Krokodil (specially smuggled in from Russia).
“To be or not to give a she-ite, that’s what my hommies be askin’ me! Cuz it sure as hell ain’t nobler in MY MIND to suffer any sheet from some white boys! Put your hands on me and I’ll shove this blade in your heart and give YOU a taste of outrageous fortune! You’ll learn all about heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is air to!”
- Hamlet Shequazel Deeahna
"William, we're going to throw you off the roof of the Avon Theatre! It is the will of Allah!"
Boy, did you really hit the nail on the head, FRiend!
drat I just broke up with him. but changed my mind.
gonna scratch your eyes out.
Or possibly date the Beatles, all of them. while your guitar gently weeps.
And with AIDS.
Lol, that was what came to mind in my post above.
Hudson published a book on the subject in 2014, Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier, The Woman Behind Shakepeare’s Plays?[9][8] Renaissance literature scholar Kate Chedgzoy said in 2010 that “The myth of Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Dark Lady both testifies to our continuing cultural investment in a fantasy of a female Shakespeare, and reveals some of the anxieties about difference that haunt canonical Renaissance literature.”[10][11] By 2020, several novels with Lanier as a character had included Hudson’s ideas.[12] David McInnis, professor in English and Theatre Studies, said that “The idea that she was known to all these people and that some elaborate conspiracy of virtually everyone of significance in London in the 17th century would ‘cover-up’ her supposed authorship of Shakespeare’s plays is ridiculous.”[13] Biographer Jonathan Bate said that Lanier’s works have no resemblance to Shakespeare’s.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Lanier_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship
Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare’s plays
Also Shakespeare’s Conspirator: The Woman, The Writer, The Clues by Steve Weitzenkorn
shakespeare a trannie?
No wonder he wrote “to be or not to be...”
“- Hamlet Shequazel Deeahna”
BWA HA HA HA!
*snicker*
Too funny~
And ADHD, plus allergic to gluten.
Alex, “1000 for what did not happen.”
Yes.
But how times did Shakespeare praise Palestine?
Not gay or transexual? Then she must have been RACIST!
Shakespeare?
How about Jesus Christ?
James H. Cone argued in his book God of the Oppressed that God and Christ are black. Known as the father of Black Liberation Theology.
Rev. Albert Cleage a pastor and author of The Black Messiah. He argued that Jesus was a non-white leader of oppressed people struggling for liberation.
There are others.
Only low IQ fools would even consider such nonsense which, means that demographic will quote it as gospel.
So the NETFLIX version...
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