Excellent news. Liberals will not find it necessary to cancel William Shakespeare and cast him down the memory hole after all. Turns out the Bard was not a hated white male after all but a Jewish woman of sacred African descent.

College Fix reports:

[Irene] Coslet’s upcoming book “The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby” asserts the real playwright — Bassano — was “of Moroccan descent,” “covertly Jewish,” and the daughter of a Venetian Court musician.

Sadly, Coslet could not come up with this lie on her own. She got it from a British guy:

Shakespeare scholar John Hudson first proposed the theory of Shakespeare’s alleged real identity years ago.

According to a 2010 Globe and Mail article, Hudson claimed Bassano “wrote the sonnets about herself” and used “Shakespeare” as a “front” to “hide her identity.”

University of Birmingham Shakespeare Institute Director Kate McLuskie at least admits this is a load of crap, but gushes that it is “a beautiful story that is not less beautiful for being entirely false.”

Within a generation, the cultural curators of academia will decree that anyone who doesn’t believe Shakespeare was an African woman is a racist/sexist fiend.

Let’s hope that after that they discover Mozart to be a transsexual from Zimbabwe, so that he too can escape cancelation.

On tips from R F and Franco.

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