“Amelia (SIC) Bassano is the lady who wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays. Because she was black they would not publish her work,” reads a Sept. 22 Facebook post. “She died in poverty ...

In August 2015, a meme claiming that a black woman named Amelia Bassano Lanyer was the true (uncredited) author of all of William Shakespeare's plays began circulating online: Although the ...

(When Maya Angelou first encountered the poem as a child, she thought Shakespeare must have been a black girl who had been sexually abused: “How else could he know what I know?”) For ...

What people mean when they ask if Othello is black is: What did Shakespeare mean when he called Othello black? Would we say Othello is black today? It’s an understandable question. Shakespeare ...

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that the mysterious “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets was black. “‘If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head,’” recites author Caroline Randall Williams, quoting Sonnet 130.

"There is still the pervasive understanding of Shakespeare as implicitly white," said Patricia Akhimie, a Black Shakespeare scholar who teaches at Rutgers University. "That is, unless someone is ...

Shakespeare fans often praise the Bard for ... Patrick Stewart of Star Trek fame was Othello in an otherwise all-black cast for a Washington, D.C., production in 1997. Last year, Golda Rosheuval ...

"There is still the pervasive understanding of Shakespeare as implicitly white," said Patricia Akhimie, a Black Shakespeare scholar who teaches at Rutgers University. "That is, unless someone is ...