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Shakespeare’s real identity finally revealed
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Date: January 25th, 2026 10:13 AM Author: cannon I knew the work was too good for a white male
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman, feminist historian and LSE graduate claims in new book By JOHN ABIONA, NIGHT NEWS EDITOR 22:03 24 Jan 2026, updated 10:55 25 Jan 2026
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.
She was the mistress of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, Elizabeth I’s Lord Chamberlain and patron of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the theatre troupe Shakespeare made famous.
Some writers believe that she may be the inspiration for the 'Dark Lady' addressed in Shakespeare’s sonnets. … The playwright's background as a humble man from Warwickshire with little formal education has further led some to question how he ascended to become a literary genius.
This is addressed in Ms Coslet's book, where she writes: 'Historians have not managed to explain how the Stratford man, a semi-illiterate moneylender, managed to gain such a level of erudition.'
In contrast to Shakespeare, Ms Coslet claims that Bassano gained the necessary expertise from her 'diverse identity' as a Jew and a Moor - a person of north African origin who also had family ties to Venice.
The author also states that 'English-speaking world has a mother with a multi-cultural identity', and that Bassano was the 'mother of a civilisation'.
While Ms Coslet's book recognises that Bassano is shown as a light-skinned woman in portraits, it argues that her skin may have been deliberately lightened in line with what were the beauty standards. |
Date: January 25th, 2026 10:27 AM Author: Ass Sunstein Can't argue with the science. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617065) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 10:54 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617092) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: zesty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617200) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: FizzKidd (Chinese Becky) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617202) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 10:28 AM Author: cucumbers What were her pronouns? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617066) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 10:29 AM Author: male nurse protester ((zurich is stained)) wow this is huge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617067) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 10:41 AM Author: Post nut horror Anyone who let's their kids major in English at this point should be shot by ICE. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617074) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 10:57 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, she offers that old argument that Shakespeare could not have been Shakespeare given his modest background and education.
imo, our best man of letters was Abe Lincoln -- who was no less a genius than Whitman, Dickinson, etc. he was born in a three-sided shack and he had no formal education. yet he became a great trial lawyer, the dean of the Illinois appellate bar, and a genius with the language in a wide variety of settings.
i don't find that particular argument against Shakespeare persuasive. |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 11:03 AM Author: cucumbers You don't even have to consider the argument. It's coming from someone who's a deranged toxic feminist shitlib clearly just making shit up and therefore can just be ignored entirely. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617103) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 11:05 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, oh i know she is. but the sustained campaign against Stratford Shakespeare use that same argument. Mark Twain, among many others, weighed in. |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 11:04 AM Author: male nurse protester ((zurich is stained)) consider that she's a 112 iq midwit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617105) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 11:56 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617227) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 12:01 PM Author: zesty how many jewish black women back then even had an education at all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617241) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 12:02 PM Author: male nurse protester ((zurich is stained)) none, but whose fault is that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617244) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: zesty do these people think black people even existed back then everywhere like they do today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617204) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 1:22 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) i'd bet my bottom dollar that shakespeare was a short or average sized man. just WAY too many cuckold jokes for it to be otherwise (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617440) |
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Date: January 25th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: Christoph Waltz stare (πΎπ£) Shakespeare was the Tudor regime's SNL, their Hollywood-like propaganda arm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826295&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49617445) |