AdvertisementAccording to a new book that is getting adulatory reviews from leftists, William Shakespeare was really a black woman, and really, what else could he possibly have been? They needn’t worry, however; there were no Palestinians in the sixteenth century, when Emilia Bassano Willoughby and William Shakespeare flourished, as the KGB didn’t create the Palestinian nationality until the 1960s. For even though she wasn’t Shakespeare, Emilia Bassano Willoughby was a real person, and she wasn’t black. One X user explained: “I’ve seen the absolutely hilarious claim that William Shakespeare stole all of his writings from a black woman… My favourite bit about this ‘black woman’ is that Emilia Bossano Lanier is literally less black than I am. Coslet “conclusively demonstrates” that Emilia Bassano Willoughby wrote Shakespeare’s works based on, Eden says, several main arguments:Shakespeare's name is an anagram of "A-She-Speaker".