&gt; To what degree is it really true that there isn&#x27;t a history of women or black men re-interpreting Shakespeare? I would be pretty surprised to learn that was the case.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why you would be surprised, but through most of history most of scholarship in the West has been done by white men. Even now, in some departments (math, for example), women are rare and in most departments minorities are rare.<p>DuBois was notable as an exception. Look at all the other scholars of his time; do you notice something odd about the demographics?