Anne Hathaway was Black

The dedication on Shakespeare's Sonnets were to Hamnet. Shakespeare’s half black son, to the Black Lady, whom Shakespeare felt was foul looking. Why? Likely because she was of african descent, and it didn’t suit him well. I know this for several reasons. First, is the often reference to Hamnet's pale skin color---saying he could pass off as white. Second, to the reference to the "Slutishness of time" which means the story is reflecting on the possible erotic interpretation, that it is faulty, and the poem makes itself to be interpreted as a possible elegy several times. Third, because the subject of the poem is referred to several times as nigh his deathbed, and is on a sickbed recovering. Fourth, because Shakespeare calls himself Hamnet's slave, showing the depths to which he loved his son, and wished the circumstances were not so.

Reading the Sonnets, it’s clear that Shakespeare had a son to a concubine, and the sonnets—given the fact that Ben Johnson wrote an elegy to his son—were written, also, as an elegy to Hamnet, Shakespeare’s son. W. H. stands for William’s Hamnet. And the half black skin tone on Hamnet led to a failed courtship, by which Hamnet was wounded and eventually killed, and Shakespeare was mourning his son through the course of the sonnets. Likely, it was written in the course of a couple of days, as a genius of literary masterpieces can do, and this was what led and inspired Romeo and Juliet. Not to mention many other Shakespeare plays like Hamlet and likely the riotous marriage led to the inspiration of Macbeth, and also the cross cultural marriage in The Merchant of Venice.

Meaning, Anne Hathaway was black, and likely a slave on the plantation that she’s normally associated with. And they had a very tumultuous relationship, which translated to the plays. And Shakespeare, when he was eighteen, married her because he got her pregnant at twenty six, which, also, the strangeness of the marriage was likely due to the mixed race background. And there were blacks in England at this time, and many of them, due to the slave trade.

Now, I know this from having read the sonnets, and having a very developed ability to read old English.

So, Shakespeare was not Edward De Vere. Unless you’re going to say that Edward had a Black wife, and associated with with women of lower decent, as is depicted in the last quarter of the sonnets.

Furthermore, it is nothing for a man with an iq of 190 to learn Latin, and gain the materials enough to have written the plays. Shakespeare was educated, and he was likely a voracious reader, being proficient in Latin, having self taught it, as is possible for someone of so high of an intelligence quotient. It happens every day with even normal people of slightly above average intelligence.

Saying otherwise denies basic facts about history, humanity, and it destroys the credibility of the record handed down through the generations, which purportedly, is true, as the victors last generation were Christians, and they had not lied. Putting history into question, and trying to rewrite it is dangerous, stupid, foolish, and in a sense, the problem with the modern culture. It doesn't work, especially where it contradicts basic facts about Shakespeare, or in general, the entire canon of Western History and their witnesses' first hand reports whom the scholars would reference to make their books.

To invent this theory that Edward De Vere is Shakespeare, one would have to create a conspiracy of an Earl to use a Stradford man as a front for his plays. Which, is almost entirely not the case, as there is no evidence to prove it, and rather, the theory relies on the hypothesis that such a convoluted plot could take place.

What is known, is that through the Sonnets, Shakespeare associated with the absolute bottom rung of society, which is not proper for an Earl such as Edward De Vere. This theory is put to rest.

To support my claim even more, that Hamnet was the subject of the Sonnets, there's reference in the later Sonnets to Shakespeare having dug open Hamnet's grave, and he describes how his Muse is lost, and he describes in stark detail a decayed corpse. This was Hamnet, who inspired Hamlet, and Hamnet had been killed over a failed courtship, because he boasted of having slept with a young maid. And Shakespeare was lamenting the behavior of Hamnet, which led to his wounds, and brought shame upon his family.

In conclusion, Shakespeare was not Edward De Vere. He couldn't have been. 


ⒸB. K. Neifert, 2022

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