William Shakespeare Was Actually a Black Woman, Feminist Historian and LSE Graduate Claims in New Book

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.

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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.

During Shakespeare’s own lifetime, his authorship was never questioned and he was even hailed as a genius ‘for all time’ by his rival Ben Jonson.

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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.

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Shakespeare, who was mentioned among the London theatre scene by 1592, died in 1616 – almost 30 years before Bassano’s death.

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