https://freerepublic.com/tag/isaacnewtonwasblack/ en-us Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:58:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4364818/posts 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... Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4364818/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:58:36 GMT