The Left Continues To Rewrite Historical past With Newest Shakespeare Declare: ‘Uneducated Interloper’
It’s one thing to replace White actors and characters with minorities in film reboots for the sake of diversity. It’s quite another when DEI activists try to erase the achievements of actual historical figures simply because they were White men.
That’s exactly what the left has been trying to do with William Shakespeare for years, and the latest effort is a real doozy.
Here’s how the Daily Caller covered the story:
A feminist historian argues William Shakespeare did not write his famous plays and sonnets. The real author was a black Jewish woman, she claims.
Irene Coslet makes the assertion in her new book “The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby,” published by Pen and Sword Books, according to The Telegraph. Coslet identifies Emilia Bassano as the actual writer of Shakespeare’s works. Bassano was a poet who moved in royal circles during the Tudor period. The man from Stratford-upon-Avon was an “uneducated interloper” who stole her work, Coslet argues.
“If Shakespeare was a female of colour, this would draw attention to issues of peace and justice in society,” Coslet told The Telegraph. “What if women had a pivotal role and a civilising impact in history, but they have been silenced, belittled and erased from the dominant narrative?”
Coslet describes Shakespeare as a “semi-illiterate moneylender” who could not have achieved such literary brilliance, The Daily Mail reported. She identifies Bassano as Jewish and Moorish with family ties to Venice.
Social media lit up with reactions to Coslet’s unsubstantiated allegations:
A new book claims William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman,” arguing that his works have been obscured for centuries by “Western-centric and Eurocentric ideology”.
The author claims Shakespeare was a cosmopolitan woman with a multicultural identity.
God give me strength. pic.twitter.com/CnmbtuPb7R
— Alex Armstrong (@Alexarmstrong) January 24, 2026
Wait what? England’s most famous ever writer William Shakespeare was actually a Black Jewish Woman? Wild. pic.twitter.com/1YKOzlYbXv
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) January 24, 2026
Did Ms Coslet graduate from the Quality Learing Center?
— Sith Imperium (@DyneOwff83399) January 25, 2026
The College Fix offered additional coverage of the latest claims:
Coslet concedes “we do not have any detail” on just how Shakespeare “exploited Bassano’s position as a woman to plagiarise her work,” but says “it is reasonable to assume” that he “took advantage” of similarities between his name and Bassano’s pseudonym.
Coslet ultimately tags “historiographical misogyny” and “historiographical racism” as the culprits for historians not giving Bassano proper credit for her contributions.
One critic, University of Birmingham Shakespeare Institute Director Kate McLuskie, said the Bassano “theory” is “entirely circumstantial, or depends on quasi-allegorical readings of the texts.”
“It is elegant and ingenious, but has no documentary foundation,” McLuskie said. “A beautiful story that is not less beautiful for being entirely false.”
Here’s a clip highlighting even more of the allegations:
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Feminist Irene Coslet, who is an expert in Gender studies has claimed her research has shown that Shakespeare was a Black Jewish Woman. She has even written a book.
Yep 🤡 pic.twitter.com/alBHuDhIKG
— Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 (@TruthFairy131) January 25, 2026