Did I miss somewhere in the video that she is black? How was that left out?

I think Tudor England was black. We've been lied to

3:20 I’m Sorry but where the hell did you get the name bassanio

The Six So called signatures of William Shakespeare kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqKcdJiIj9x3aNk

Amazing

Plagiarism at finest, why I’m not surprised.

Rowse proposed Amelia Lanier as the Dark Lady years ago, and the 'coincidence ' of family names to her in some if the plays has also been known for a long time. The idea that she was 'Shakespeare ' is stretching things, but I feel she had an influence on him and others and her abuse by men in her life may have scarred her. Without doubt she was a highly educated and talented woman, but Shakespeare she was not.

All praises to the MOST HIGH I had a Jewish teacher to teach us this over 50 years ago

John Heminges, Henry Condell, and Richard Burbage, three actors of The Lord Chamberlain's Men, a famous acting company that included William Shakespeare, were given money by William Shakespeare of Stratford in his Last Will and Testament in 1616. Two of these actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, were responsible for having 36 of Shakespeare's plays published in the First Folio in 1623. Ben Jonson's eulogy in the First Folio clearly praises Shakespeare as a great writer and refers to him as the “Sweet Swan of Avon.” This obviously designates Shakespeare as from Stratford upon Avon. Furthermore, Jonson states that "thy writings to be such, /As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much." Heminges and Condell also praise Shakespeare as a writer, stating that "he thought, he uttered with that easinesse, that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers. But it is not our province, who onely gather his works, and give them you, to praise him." These are "his works" and "his papers" that they are publishing. He is clearly presented as the writer of these works in the First Folio. The Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare of Stratford clearly connects him with the 1623 First Folio through Heminges and Condell and it is clear that Shakespeare is presented as the author of the plays.

Were Shakespeare's Plays Actually Written By a Black Jewish Woman? This year commemorates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, yet the question of the true authorship of his plays persists. Among the contenders, some advocate for Aemelia Bassano, a black Jewish woman, as the rightful playwright. When interviewed, Canadian journalist and author Michael Posner presented the evidence supporting his assertion thus: Why does the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays remain contentious? Posner highlights the scarcity of verifiable facts surrounding Shakespeare’s life, leaving questions about his extensive knowledge and the absence of any mention of his literary works in his will. Who are the potential authors besides Shakespeare? Various candidates have been proposed over the years, including Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere, Christopher Marlowe, and Aemelia Bassano, who stands out for her diverse background and unique qualifications. What evidence supports Bassano’s candidacy? John Hudson, a proponent of Bassano’s authorship argues that her feminist perspective and expertise in areas such as music and Italian language align more with the content of Shakespeare’s works than Shakespeare’s own background suggests. What specific expertise did Bassano possess? Bassano hailed from a family of professional court musicians, providing her with an intimate understanding of music, Italian language, and culture, all of which are evident in Shakespeare’s writings. Are there any Jewish influences in Shakespeare’s plays? References to Jewish sources and themes in Shakespeare’s works, coupled with Bassano’s Jewish heritage, lend credence to the idea of her authorship in the subtle encoding of her name in certain plays. Did Bassano ever claim authorship? Given the societal constraints on women’s roles in Elizabethan England, Bassano might have discreetly signaled her authorship through subtle references in the text of Shakespeare’s plays, offering future generations clues to her true identity. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of playwright William Shakespeare, yet doubt remains about the authorship of the plays attributed to him. Some believe that a Jewish woman - Aemelia Bassano - is the true playwright. I asked Canadian journalist and author Michael Posner to lay out the evidence for this claim. ReformJudaism.org: Why is authorship of Shakespeare’s plays still an issue in some circles? Michael Posner: Verifiable facts of Shakespeare’s life are few. He acted in two of English playwright Ben Jonson’s plays, owned shares of the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars, sued people for petty sums, and bought land in Stratford. It remains a mystery, though, how he acquired his knowledge of foreign languages, where he developed dramatic mastery of the Elizabethan law, the royal court, mathematics, medicine, falconry, astronomy, and the military - to which he had no known exposure. And why did he leave a last will and testament that made no mention of anything he wrote? His name appeared on many of the plays, but no evidence demonstrates that he actually wrote them. In his diary, Jonson noted that although Shakespeare passed manuscripts of plays to the actors, who in their “ignorance” admired Shakespeare for providing clean copies, he was to be “most faulted” for telling them the copies were his original drafts. If Shakespeare didn’t write the plays, who did? The Shakespeare Authorship Trust, which was founded in 1922 “to seek…the truth concerning the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays and poems,” has endorsed about a dozen candidates, among them statesman and essayist Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere (the Earl of Oxford), playwright Christopher Marlowe, and Aemelia Bassano, daughter of a Venetian-born court musician and converso - a Jew who was forced to convert to Christianity but remained secretly Jewish. What evidence do we have to support the view that Bassano might have written the plays? The principal proponent of this view, John Hudson - a graduate of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, England - doubts that a man whose works portray strong, well-educated, proto-feminist women would raise his own daughters (as Shakespeare did) as illiterate. Such portrayals of women are more likely to come from the pen of Aemelia Bassano (1569-1645), a feminist and writer who possessed knowledge that Shakespeare seemingly lacked. In 1611, she distinguished herself as being the first woman to publish a work of original verse in the English language, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail God, King of the Jews). What specific areas of expertise did Bassano possess that Shakespeare supposedly lacked? Shakespeare’s works contain some 2,000 musical references, many displaying a firm grasp of musical intricacies. Bassano’s 15 closest relatives were professional court musicians, among them Robert Johnson, the most popular musical composer for the plays attributed to Shakespeare. The playwright had to have known Italian well enough to make elaborate puns and to have read Dante and others in the original language. Bassano likely spoke Italian fluently, as attested to by letters written in Italian from her family to Queen Elizabeth. In 1592, the very year when the playwright started writing Italian marriage comedies, Bassano left the court - where she had been the longtime mistress of Lord Chamberlain, patron to the very company that mounted the Shakespeare works - and rejoined her family in Italy. One of Iago’s speeches in Othello describes a distinctive fresco painted on a house in Aemelia’s family hometown of Bassano. Whoever wrote the text must have visited the town, which was not a likely tourist destination. Are there any Jewish sources in the plays that would support the Bassano authorship theory? In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Mishnah’s Tractate Nedarim (The Book of Vows) is used to structure how Helena, the daughter of her absent father Nedar (in Hebrew nedar is an adjective that means “missing” or “absent,” and as a noun it means “pledge” or “vow”), compares herself to Hermia. Her criteria - beauty, fairness, and height - are the very same and in the same order as those in the tractate to determine the annulment of marriage vows. It’s highly unlikely, says Hudson, that the young man from Stratford somehow learned Hebrew and immersed himself in the Talmud. Did Bassano ever claim to be the playwright? As women were forbidden to write plays for the stage in Elizabethan England, Bassano may have signaled her claim to authorship by encoding her name in plays. In Othello, Emilia says, “Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan. And die in music. [Singing] willough, willough, willough” (Act V, Scene 2). The same swan analogy appears in King John, where it is associated with John’s son, and in Merchant of Venice, associated with the character Bassanio. All four names - Emilia, Willough, Johnson, and Bassanio - correspond to her own names: her baptismal name (Aemelia), her mother’s name (Johnson), her adopted name (Willoughby), and her family name (Bassano). Hudson believes these names were deliberately inserted by Bassano as clues, so that future generations could discover the author’s true identity. reformjudaism.org/blog/were-shakespeares-plays-actually-written-jewish-woman

It's long been pretty obvious that various playwrights including women - often aristocratic, highly-educated and well-travelled - submitted their plays to London's theatre-owners. Many if not most of them sought anonymity(not money) and aimed to (politically) influence London's mixed-class theatre audiences for reasons that have been thoroughly researched and elucidated elsewhere - even in the Shakespeare authorship movie "Anonymous" starring Rhys Ifans and Vanessa Redgrave. However that movie/film and its director and actors conspicuously avoid even suggesting that a woman may have written some or all of William Shak'pear's(spelling!?) works - despite the fact that women had one major additional reason to hide their true identities: women were still not permitted to write plays in ostensibly enlightened and liberal Elizabethan England. In fact the 2010 hit movie revival "St.Trinians - Fritton's Gold" starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth and David Tennant is infinitely bolder in that respect. In the following two film clips the St.Trinians' girls discover the truth( "Shakespeare was a woman!") in the hidden vaults of London's Globe Theatre during a performance of Romeo and Juliet: 1)kzbin.info/www/bejne/foXSdH6Xi9migsk 2)kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGWahaOQftSneacsi=vpEHdgMBmbQCYygQ Paul G

Sorry she may have had some part in some ideals. But de vere is the author

I have Lanier ancestry

You know why so many people think Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare? Because of this endless stream of books, articles, and blogs claiming that he didn't, based on no bloody evidence whatsoever.

Interesting research and thank for your incredible research work Mitchell. I will certainly be purchasing these Literary works of hers and your book. Some years ago we learned the same thing about Mary Seacole the Caribbean Nurse who Nursed the British soldier's in the CrimeanWar and wirjed with Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale stole all her work and got the credits. The truth always come out. I will certainly purchase the books. Mitchell, please advise where we can buy these books and yours to buy❤

the world most hiding secrets, is the history of black people, but the truth is coming up.

Hi. I like your comment - "Too many coincidences!" I have done some work you may find of interest. I would much appreciate your thoughts. I am hoping to find anagram style messages hidden in my pyramid diagram but am not seeing anything I recognise. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnezc2iIlqZ9adU

im related to amelia i couldnt believe it when i found her on my family tree!

The Dark Lady was a black prostitute. The Inns of Court students knew about her. It's documented that they did.

Congratulations on solving one of the greatest mysteries in Western literature!

The non sequiturs abound. So many where do we start? Some of the greatest writers of the English language, had regional, and, shock horror, even 'colonial' accents. So too with poets. So that reasoning looks wobbly. He had a good education for the day. Also, if you are going to pick someone to be the face for your writing, why would you pick someone like Shakespeare, if, according to the video's reasoning, he is such an unlikely candidate? Your core argument therefore, works at least effectively against your theory as for it. The different conspiracy theories of the 'true Shakespeare', go in cycles. Ten years ago it was Marlowe. Before that, it was de Vere. Bacon was the candidate of choice preceding that. Each time, they fizzled out, because the proof that a country lad, albeit one with a decent education, was able to combine genius with incredible creative flair and imagination, was the writer, sickens all those snobs. The latest theory laid out in hilarious detail here, is just one in a succession of sour grapes, albeit one that attempts to jump on a particular bandwagon.

Any logical human knows Shakespeare's plays and poems were written by a black person. Even the style of writing could be likened to rap.

I was at a poetry reading some years ago and read out the part where Romeo sees Juliet at the balcony and he cries out, 'What yonder light through window breaks...It is the East and Juliet is the SUN!" It struck me then and there that the play was written by a woman because no man at that time of History (or even today for that matter) would ever call a woman the Sun!....Then of course, all the plays had Italian names, took place in Italy, had the language of the Court a most delightful poetry.....so I wondered what role this fellow Shakespeare had to play in these works? It was obvious to me that Emelia who spoke the language of the Court would not have been able to write the servants parts in the play and here is where Shakespeare. a butcher by profession came in and supplied the language servants and the labour class spoke. Shakespeare was a businessman is clear from the fact he owned the theatre, 'The Globe" which was later burned down...perhaps by angry relatives of Bassano as he did not clarify the authorship of the plays by Bassano Lanier. A hundred years earlier, Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake for leading French soldiers against the British, and who knows how many others were burnt as witches for daring to write plays and books of interest. Women were not even allowed to act in plays leave alone write them! The Shakespearean plays, all the female parts were acted by males. In that scenario it would have been even dangerous to reveal the true authorship of a woman writing the plays....So it really makes sense that the actual writer of the plays was a woman with a feminist attitude and one who was perhaps also thrown out of a previous marriage due to a discovery that she really wrote the plays from the British court. Of course John Hudson gives a more educated and technical explanation as to why Emelia really wrote the plays and we have to be truly grateful for his research and input in the matter.

AMELIA WAS “BLACK”, NOT A PALE FACE.

She is Black too

In a world ruled by men the thought that the author might be a woman is complete heresy. That she is a foreigner and Jewish is completely out of the question...except for the fact that she certainly appears to be a plausible candidate. I have been a fan of hers for many years ever since my best friend, Danny Elliot, sent me an essay he wrote describing her connections to the plays. At the very least she was a published poet. She must have been quite a lady--brilliant, beautiful, cultured, literate, educated, and very well connected.

Shakespeare couldn't even write his own name. True Fact.

Dark lady is code for Blackwoman !

I can easily subscribe to the idea that Shakespeare is Jewish Revenge Literature, but reading the plays it is difficult to believe they were written by a woman. The plays are so heavily male-romantic and 'into' women from a male perspective that it would be difficult to imagine them being feminine literature.

A fascinating candidate to be sure. Of course, I had to look her up on Wikipedia and elsewhere. It turns out that there is no historical reference to her possibly being of African ancestry. Her portrait is of someone with a very fair complexion, brown hair, narrow nose and thin lips. There is some suggestion that she may have actually been of dark complexion, but it is controversial. Same thing with being Jewish. She was a baptized Christian. There was some suspicion that her family may have had some Jewish ancestry, but it was only speculation. So I think it is unwise to categorize her as a black Jewish woman when there is no historical evidence of it being so. Interestingly similar to characterizing William Shakspear of Straford as the author of Shakespeare's work.

Had Agatha Christie when she wrote all her incredible books have any experience as a genius wealthy Belgian private investigator.. maybe Shakespeare did write his works..

Fascinating

Snob.

The moment I read Shakespeare many years ago I could tell for sure that a women was the writer. It took me many years to figure out that a Black women wrote it. If one really pays close attention to the style you can hear it in the words Just listen to Black women today read poetry and you will hear the same style even today. I also think her real Parents were of the Black French Nobility. they would have put her to be adopted for her protection as during that time the Nobility of the Blacks in Europe was being wiped out. I thank you for telling the truth about it this takes a lot of courage.

Unless we find a letter or document from Shakespeare addressing Elizabeth I of England saying, _Your Highness, the real author of the plays and sonnets is Emilia Bassano Lanier, the mistress of your cousin Henry Carey,_ we will never know with 100% certainty who the author of those works was. 💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌

I have DNA and Family tree related to Lanier/Brewer marriage coming to America. My family tree and the evidence of the DNA cross this manytimes. I even have a royal blood work that is in the Hemphillia Family. Thanks for including the family trees here. Johnson is also a family name.

Can't help feeling that there must be a group of men in white coats just out of picture waiting for this man to finish what he's saying so that they can convey him to a place of safety. Pity they didn''t do it before he finished.

Great presentation so much of history most be retold so much lies have been told the truth is offend a offence.

Sigh... Bacon!! That is all.

Bravo!!

All I will say there is no smoke without fire....there as been a lot of controversy about this alleged person called Shake Spear ....through the little I have gathered about this alleged man ....it seems that he was part of the reset, the reformation, he was part of the institution, the state and monarchy, doing there bidding ...just like you have today ... You had a lot of Black Moors in England and in Europe at the time ...who were cultured people....

I’ll just say....open minds receive.... closed minds wallow in the limitations of their dedicated ignorant....

The Tempest. It is not in Bermuda or in a utopian place. The island is England. Sycorax is Elisabeth. Caliban are the Protestants. Prospero is Felipe II of Spain... This is the literary testament of Shakespeare 403 years later. That I have deducted in one night. I do not know why the Shakespearean experts speak of the island as an imaginary place and another hypothesis. The island of The Tempest, Is England. The tests are here. Shakespeare wanted, and prayed, for Spain to invade England, and Catholics to be liberated. Although he feels very English. Nobody wants to imagine that Shakespere, the most universal English, wanted Spain to invade England, because England builds its national identity remembering the year 1588. But this is the truth: Precisely because Shakespeare secretly practiced Catholicism, and his family had been recused and impoverished, he wrote the Tempest to vent, because of the Protestant intolerance against Catholics. It was the last play, and he risked reprisals and left the theater. The tempest that disperses the ships (not the English action, because later there were more invincible navies, 2nd and 3rd, of 1596 and 1597, dispersed by storms). But the tempest could also bring an army to rescue the Catholics of the island. Who lives on the island of Shakespare's Tempest? They had lived Sycorax before. Look for Sycorax in Wikipedia, for example: "An especially odd and early guess at a meaning by one critic was sic or rex, a Latin homophone alluding to Queen Elizabeth's pride". Elisabeth Sycorax only appears in the named text. She is described as a ruthless witch who has already died. Now there is Caliban, which is a cannibal transformation. Caliban is the son of Elisabeth (who brought Protestantism again after the death of Maria Tudor). Protestant cannibals are "eating" Catholics. Shakespeare is very cruel to Caliban, who is a deformed being, "like Protestantism then?" But who lives abandoned on that desert island of the Tempest? (It can be deserted if they kill us all, thinks Shakespeare). Live there Prospero and Miranda (María Tudor), "daugther" of Prospero, Duke of Milan (Felipe II of Spain was Duke of Milan, and before King of England, and the great protector of Catholicism in Europe). Who commanded the invincible army of 1588? Alonso Pérez de Guzmán (who was captain general of Lombardía , Milan). Who commanded the navy in the text of Shakespeare? a man named Alonso, king of Naples. Always Italy, where the Pope is, and always Spanish territories in Italy. Who is the greatest traitor in Spain in history? Antonio Pérez, who betrayed Felipe II, and traveled to England to ally with Elisabeth. Shakespeare met Antonio Pérez. Shakespare makes a caricature of Antonio Pérez in Love's Labour Lost, called him Don Adriano de Armado. Who is the greatest traitor in the Tempest? Antonio, who has stolen Prospero (Felipe II) the title of Duke of Milan, has usurped the name of Spain. The daughter of Alonso (head of the real and fictitious army) is called Claribel. How could Spain invade England? Taking troops from the Netherlands, to embark them in the army. Who was the Spanish sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, daughter of Philip II, king who sent the army? Isabel Clara Eugenia. Isabel Clara Eugenia was proposed to be queen of France. The King of France rejected the proposal, but in return he made France Catholic. "Paris is worth a Mass". Shakespeare was thinking that this was a solution for England, a wedding like that of Philip and Mary, an invasion, or the solution that there was in France, to bring Catholicism to England. In addition, Claribel comes from Tunisia, where the uncle of Isabel Clara Eugenia, had just left the Moors expelled from Spain by infidels. Sycorax (Elisabeth) fue expulsada de Argel, por hacer brujería, era menos cristiana que los argelinos. Who is the servant of Prospero and Felipe II: Ariel, the wind, who has a childish spirit, and does not always obey Prospero. But Prospero reminds him of Ariel, that he rescued him from Sycorax. When? When Philip II of Spain was king of England he brought Catholicism. So in The Tempest, Ariel brings the ships to England. Shakespare could not go further without discovering his intention. The text of the Tempest is full of much more subtle allusions, almost on each page, showing the suffering and relief of Shakespare. The text talks about the barrels of wine from Jerez (Spain) that the fleet brings to fill the whole island, and that are hidden in a cave (wine for Catholic Masses, which were hidden in the 17th century? )He wanted what he thought was best for England. What is the last sentence of the Tempest, the farewell phrase of Shakespeare from the theaters? A Catholic phrase.

Emila's stepmother's (Baptiste's Wife's) name was Caterina possibly the name used for the shrew (Katherine). Her Uncle was Antonio Bassano, a direct ancestor of mine. He could have been the namesake of the character from the merchant of Venice. The plays are definitely full of names from both sides of her family.

correct. also combine with ‘bacon’, the common sefardic coding with pork names, cf. quijote (a swine bone).

Shame 😏

More conspiracy theories. This is actually the most plausible argument, but still completely, implausible. Yes, she could write, but not to the level attributed to William Shakespeare. Why do people have such a problem with the man who has been credited with the authorship? Yes, he knew these people, but, they simply gave him ideas. That is it. Simple.

Utter ballocks. Read Whittemore's Monument for the true import of de Vere's Sonnets.

I am with you MR and I welcome the theory. The evidence is interesting but not as good as for Munday et al. How could this female, in those times, have attended rehearsals, watched and edited and re-watched and re-edited to polish the plays, as every play, then and now, needed to be. The fact that she was female would have been the talk of the town. Male actors who were not working for an aristocrat were liable to arrest as vagrants. Women, then, were not even allowed to act on stage, there’s the measure of why it could not be a woman author. The sonnets are a better guide to who the author is, and they point strongly away from the life of Stratford-Shakspere and A. B. Lanier. The ‘Fair youth’, for instance, is his son. He is not a mystery, it clearly says it is his son in the sonnets. Stratford’s son died at 11 years old so it cannot be him. Many times, Anthony Munday’s words and ideas re-appear in the later plays by London-Shakespeare. Don’t take my word for it, search ‘Shakespeare and Munday’ and you will find the essay by a leading (Stratfordian) academic. I won't trample on the/your theory further and I thank you for allowing comments.