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by Katrina Lang Brown
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'Shakespeare Must Be a Black Girl' is a famous Maya Angelou quote. It marks a time when she lectured on Shakespeare during her professorship at Wake Forest University, North Carolina and noticed the 'Dark Lady Sonnets' perspective is that of an "outcast state".
In an effort to bring Aemilia Bassano Lanier's story as a Shakespeare authorship candidate to Hollywood, Katrina Lang Brown observed many notable scholars who questioned the under qualified William Shakespeare; among them were Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, and Malcolm X.
Ms. Brown observes that many of the Shakespeare authorship challengers have very close ties with Masonic teachings, whether Jewish Freemasonry or Eastern Star and The Moorish Science Temple. Ms. Brown's book focuses on the blackness which dominates the plays beyond Othello, Aaron in Titus Andronicus or Jacquenetta in Love's Labour's Lost and explores the lesser known black perspectives in Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Pericles.
The fearless questioning of the current Shakespeare narrative will entertain and educate a new generation on the conspiracy hidden in plain sight that Shakespeare absolutely was a black woman.
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O slanderous world! Kate, like the hazel-twig,
Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue
As hazelnuts, and sweeter than the kernels.
-Shakespeare’s Petrichio describes Katerina, Taming of The Shrew
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“I can tell from here what the inhabitants of Venus are like, they resemble the Moors of Granada, a small black people, burned by the sun, full of wit and fire, always in love, writing in verse, fond of music, arranging festivals, dances and tournaments every day.”
Shakespeare has been in Katrina Lang Brown’s consciousness long before any class, book or movie. As a child her father, Mr. Brown, would say “Shakespeare was black…and Jesus too.” Even as a child she thought her father was crazy, or as her mother put it, “boocoo dinky dau.”
Katrina would attend UCLA as an English Literature major with echos of her father’s tall tales in the furthest recesses of her mind…buried, but not forgotten. These used to be considered conspiracy theories but in recent years the evidence seems stacked in favor of Mr. Brown’s urban myths now deeply entrenched in the black community and less and less are conspiracy theories considered fringe ideas that only seem to be in part promoted by Masonic occult history.
After working for Walt Disney TV Animation and The Thomas Carter Company, Katrina Lang Brown retired from film and television to start a family. She would be called back to pitch John Hudson’s Shakespeare’s Dark Lady to Starz (JH turned down the offer) and Joseph Atwill’s Shakespeare’s Secret Messiah to HBO Max among other projects pitched as — Aemilia Bassano as Shakespeare —dramas. They were very well received, maybe even too well sometimes.
Katrina Lang Brown refused an offer from HBO Max to pursue her own premise. Most of the “Aemilia Bassano as Shakespeare” premises are based on the notion that Bassano was a Jewish woman of color. Katrina doesn’t agree with the prevailing conspiracy narrative. Now a boocoo dinky dau herself, she believes that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays, whether Bassano or other candidate was indeed black, Semitic and anti-Jewish.
After ten years of research a cheeky, irreverent and often entertaining book has emerged to cut through 400 years of white, male dogma and lies to reveal a black girl genius…and Aemilia Bassano too (SMILE).
Why is Shakespeare relevant now? In light of the release of the Epstein Files and other conspiracy truths, Katrina Lang Brown has released her book early. Why you ask? What most people do not realize is that before the #MeToo Movement, there was Shakespeare. The first two epic poems written by Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucretia were both RAPE PROTESTS. Young girls and boys were protesting being raped by their powerful benefactors and used the pseudonym “Shakespeare” to do it.
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