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because i just recently started studying romeo and juliet, i told my english teacher that shakespeare was ethiopian (which is true, because my mother said she read it somewhere)!. my english teacher doesn't believe me, so by tomorrow, i have to show him somesort of evidence that shakespeare was ethiopian!. unfortunately, i cant find any website that gives me a solution!. does anyone have one!? id be very much appreciative!Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Shakespeare was English, not Ethiopean !

SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTH
The baptismal register of the Holy Trinity parish church, in Stratford, England!.shows the following entry for April 26, 1564: Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakespeare!. The actual date of Shakespeare's birth is not known, but, traditionally, April 23, St George's Day, has been Shakespeare's accepted birthday, and a house on Henley Street in Stratford, owned by William's father, John, is accepted as Shakespeare's birth place!.

http://www!.shakespeare-online!.com/biogra!.!.!.

Edit : during the sixteenth century, there were many families with the name Shakespeare in and around Stratford!.
"Shakespeare" appears countless times in town minutes and court records, spelled in a variety of ways, from Shagspere to Chacsper!.
The Bard's paternal grandfather was Richard Shakespeare (d!. 1561), a farmer in Snitterfield, a village four miles northeast of Stratford!. There is no record of Richard Shakespeare before 1529, but details about his life after this reveal that he was a tenant farmer, who, on occasion, would be fined for grazing too many cattle on the common grounds and for not attending manor court!. There is no record of Richard Shakespeare's wife, but together they had two sons (possibly more), John and Henry!. Richard Shakespeare worked on several different sections of land during his lifetime, including the land owned by the wealthy Robert Arden of Wilmecote, Shakespeare's maternal grandfather!. Robert Arden (d!. 1556) was the son of Thomas Arden of Wilmecote, Shakespeare's maternal great-grandfather, who probably belonged to the aristocratic family of the Ardens of Park Hall!. He was catholic and married more than once (we know the name of his second wife -- Agnes Hill) and he fathered no fewer than eight daughters!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Shakespeare is a kinda common Ethiopian last name!.

And no pictures were ever commisioned to be painted or drawn of Shakespeare because he was not of noble blood!.

He wrote alot about black women, favorably!. Why would he write about black women at all if he wasn't black!. And Elizabethan England was not a place, aside from recent slavery from Africa coming over, where one would see an abundance of black people represented in a positive light!. So, Shakespeare may have been black and Ethiopian, stationed in a world where he was indeed a minority!.

Shakespearean works featuring black people include:
The Dark Lady poem
Othello (about a black man)
The Merchant of Venice (Morrocan Prince)
Caliban the slave, whose mother is from Algiers in The Tempest

But I have definitely read somewhere, that he was like half Subsaharan African!. And it was in the same book that talked about how Thomas Jefferson was part Middle Eastern!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

My reading doesn't mention that Shakespeare
was anyhting but British!.
Perhaps your Mom meant the Othello, (one of
Shakespeares tragic heros), was called Ethiopian!.
This was not necessarily a reference to his origin,
but to skin color, Ethiopian being a common synonym
for 'black` at the time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hi,

I think your mother was talking about Alexander Pushkin!. His grandfather was Ibrahim Petrovitch Gannibal or (Hannibal in Ethiopia)!.

There's a great site on it at:
http://www!.pbs!.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/!.!.!.

But just in case, I'll try to dig into the ancestry of Bill Shakespeare!.

One Love !!!
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Just because your mom said she read it somewhere, that means it's true!? I think you might want to believe your English teacher!.!.!.!. Shakespeare definitely wasn't Ethopian!Www@QuestionHome@Com

just because your mom told you so, it must be factual!? wow

he was english, everyone knows that

there is no conspiracy theory hereWww@QuestionHome@Com

I've never heard that he was anything other than a whitebread Englishman!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think your mother might be mistaken!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

He is from England!. Don't believe your mom!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your mom is an idiot!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

false! where is your mom getting her info!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com