AWFLs (Affluent White Female Liberals) are at it again; trying to revise history using feeeeeeelings and little more. It seems a self-described “feminist historian,” Irene Coslet, has literally folded Shakespeare’s portrait and seen Emilia Bassano in it. No really.
One of Coslet’s claims is that Shakespeare’s name is an anagram of “A-She-Speaker”, and that if you fold the famous “Chandos portrait” of the playwright a certain way, it looks like the existing portrait of Bassano.
Ms. Coslet’s article is here. Two pieces about Ms. Coslet’s article are linked below. They came to my attention because one, the first, was published in American Thinker, and the other was in RealClear Books. Both are written from the Stratfordian perspective, but they are worthy of note if only for the fact that they appeared in something other than an obscure corner of the internet. In order:
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