Jessica B. Hill’s award-winning play imagines the love story between Shakespeare and the dark-haired woman of his sonnets.

Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris “proved” she was Mary Fitton, maid-of-honor at Elizabeth’s court. Countess de Chambrun ...

Approximately two dozen of the sonnets were addressed to the “Dark Lady,” a woman who infatuates Shakespeare. Based on his ...

Testament The identity of the 'dark lady' of the Shakespeare's sonnets has mystified academics for years. As the Globe stage a new play about Emilia Bassano, one of the main candidates ...

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This light-as-air meringue of a play sets the scene for all the misrule to follow. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, one of Shaw’s most well-known early one-acts, imagines a Shakespeare whose opinions of ...

“Lucy Negro, Redux” tells the story of a slice of Shakespeare’s love life from the perspective of the so-called Dark Lady for whom many of his sonnets were written. Some scholars and ...

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