Sure there are Shakespeare's women, but what if Shakespeare was a woman? Well, maybe he/she was a woman! There's a theory floating about that Shakespeare was, in fact, female. The Globe & Mail has more about the Bard/Bardess.
From the piece...
One of the most prestigious academic journals devoted to Shakespearean authorship studies has just added a new candidate to the centuries-old debate about who else plausibly might have written the works we associate with the little-educated merchant and actor from Stratford-Upon-Avon.
The nominee is a complete shocker: Amelia Bassano Lanier, a converso (clandestine Jew) and the illegitimate daughter of an Italian-born, Elizabethan court musician.
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The academic article on Amelia Bassano Lanier and a short video documentary can be found at
http://www.darkladyplayers.com/theater.htm
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