&gt; <i>To what degree is it really true that there isn&#x27;t a history of women or black men re-interpreting Shakespeare?</i><p>The bit you quoted does not say that.<p>It&#x27;s really frustrating that all the top-voted comments on this fascinating article are nitpicking over the writer&#x27;s racial politics in the last paragraph.<p>(Edit: Parent was the top comment at the time I posted.)