Fact Check: Amelia Bassano Did NOT Write Shakespeare's Plays, Was Not Black, And Her Poetry Was Published
Fact Check
Did a 16th-century woman named Amelia Bassano write all of William Shakespeare's plays -- for which she "never received a dime" -- as she could not publish her own work because she was Black? No, that's not true: Bassano, who became Amelia Bassano Lanier through marriage, published her own volume of poems, in 1611. She may have had an olive…