• Dark Lady of the Sonnets is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, which was recorded in Finland and released in 2011 on the Finnish TUM...
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    The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short comedy by George Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending to meet the "Dark Lady", accidentally...
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  • The Dark Lady is a woman described in Shakespeare's sonnets (sonnets 127–152), and so called because the poems make it clear that she has black wiry hair...
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    wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were...
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    A. L. Rowse (category Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    His work on Shakespeare included a claim to have identified the Dark Lady of the Sonnets as Emilia Lanier, which attracted much interest from scholars...
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    Emilia Lanier (category English people of Italian descent)
    Lanier IS the Dark Lady of the Sonnets", English Studies, 87, 5 (2006) pp. 544–576. "The Lady Revealed; A Play Based on the Life and Writings of A. L. Rowse...
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  • topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited...
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    Sonnet 127 of Shakespeare's sonnets (1609) is the first of the Dark Lady sequence (sonnets 127–152), called so because the poems make it clear that the...
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    often thought of in a pair with the previous sonnet, number 153. As A. L. Rowse states in Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Problems Solved, Sonnets 153 and 154...
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    George Bernard Shaw (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
    Androcles and the Lion Pygmalion Heartbreak House Short plays The Dark Lady of the Sonnets Overruled The Music Cure Great Catherine The Inca of Perusalem...
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  • The Dark Lady, a playable hero in the computer game Heroes of Newerth A female Dark Lord Dark Lady (Shakespeare), the claimed addressee in a sonnet sequence...
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  • Simon Hubbard (category Actors from the City of Sunderland)
    Hubbard directed his first play at the age of sixteen, George Bernard Shaw's The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, staged at the Washington Arts Centre. His other...
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  • mixture of fact and fiction, the latter including an affair with a black prostitute named Fatimah, who inspires the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. The title...
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  • Emily Richard (category Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art)
    1982 she appeared at the Open Air Theatre in London's Regent's Park in Shaw's The Admirable Bashville and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and in Shakespeare's...
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  • – Ruth The Bald Soprano – Mrs. Smith The Dark Lady of the Sonnets – Queen Elizabeth I Spoon River Anthology The Stronger – South Street Theatre (NYC)...
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    Shakespeare used the poem to discuss his frustrating relationship with the Dark Lady, a frequent subject of many of the sonnets. (To note, the Dark Lady was definitely...
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    she was the Dark Lady of the sonnets. In 1970 Burgess wrote, It is reasonable to believe that Will wished to marry a girl named Anne Whateley. The name is...
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    The following is a list of works by George Bernard Shaw. The first section shows works in chronological sequence as written, the second tabulates these...
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    1977–1981: Meeting of Minds (TV Series) as Catherine the Great / Margaret Sanger / Florence Nightingale / Dark Lady of the Sonnets / Elizabeth Barrett...
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    productions of the play, including the 1938 film version of Pygmalion as well as in the stage and film versions of My Fair Lady. The co-director of the 1938...
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    stressed on the second syllable. As a piece within Shakespeare's sonnet collection, Sonnet 147 lies within the Dark Lady sonnets sequence (Sonnets 127-154)...
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  • Harkins-Cross, Rebecca. "Theatre review: Shakespeare and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-03-02. "Arta Muçaj -...
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    of Friedrich Schiller's play Mary Stuart. On television, Elizabeth has been portrayed by: Dorothy Black in the BBC drama The Dark Lady of the Sonnets...
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    Sonnet 129 is one of the 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published in the 1609 Quarto. It is considered one of the "Dark Lady" sonnets...
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    the Dark Lady sequence (sonnets 127–152), which distinguishes itself from The Fair Youth sequence by being more overtly sexual in its passion. Sonnet...
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  • Upstart Crow (category 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death)
    Montserrat Lombard as Emilia Lanier, the Dark Lady of the sonnets Ben Miller as Wolf Hall, an actor; a parody of Mark Rylance Ken Nwosu as Puck Nigel...
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    Caroline Randall Williams (category University of Mississippi alumni)
    Lady' Of Shakespeare's Sonnets". WMOT. Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Mzezewa, Tariro (February 5, 2019). "What if Shakespeare's Dark Lady Told Their Love Story...
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    Sonnet 145 is one of Shakespeare's sonnets. It forms part of the Dark Lady sequence of sonnets and is the only one written not in iambic pentameter, but...
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    Cressida (category Women of the Trojan war)
    for this play is to put before us a Cressida, who, like the fair (but dark) lady of the sonnets is, in Eve Sedgwick's memorable term, 'oxymoron militant'...
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    Mary Fitton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    She is considered by some to be the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets. Fitton was the daughter of Sir Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, Cheshire and Alice...
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