Like all theories that posit Shakespeare didn't write the plays, this is a fantasy dressed up as facts. Amelia Bassano Lanier was not Jewish. That's the first problem with the theory.
Her mother was not Jewish and there isn't any research that proves her father was a hidden Jew, so it's all supposition. She should be celebrated for her poetry, but she doesn't need to be touted as something she isn't.
The latest book to look at the whole vexed question of people being unable to accept Shakespeare as the author of the plays is James Shapiro's terrific Contested Will.
Like all theories that posit Shakespeare didn't write the plays, this is a fantasy dressed up as facts. Amelia Bassano Lanier was not Jewish. That's the first problem with the theory.
Her mother was not Jewish and there isn't any research that proves her father was a hidden Jew, so it's all supposition. She should be celebrated for her poetry, but she doesn't need to be touted as something she isn't.
The latest book to look at the whole vexed question of people being unable to accept Shakespeare as the author of the plays is James Shapiro's terrific Contested Will.
And there's a long examination of Hudson's theory here: http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bo...