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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Warcraft character The Dark Lady, a playable hero in the computer game Heroes of Newerth A female Dark Lord Dark Lady (Shakespeare), the claimed addressee...
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Dante, and Philip Sidney had done, Shakespeare introduces a young man. He also introduces the Dark Lady. Shakespeare explores themes such as lust, homoeroticism...
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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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Emilia Lanier (category People associated with Shakespeare)
of the Jews, 1611). Attempts have been made to equate her with Shakespeare's "Dark Lady". Emilia Lanier's life appears in her letters, poetry, and medical...
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speculated Shakespeare had affairs with other women, based on contemporaries' written anecdotes of such affairs and sometimes on the "Dark Lady" figure in...
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Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Dark Lady both testifies to our continuing cultural investment in a fantasy of a female Shakespeare, and reveals some...
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The Dark Lady Players is a New York-based Shakespeare company who perform what they regard as the religious allegories in the Shakespearean plays. In...
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William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the...
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Sonnet 138 (category Sonnets by William Shakespeare)
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...
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in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the...
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the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. The title refers to the first line of Sonnet 130, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", in which Shakespeare describes...
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Macbeth (redirect from Shakespeare's Macbeth)
consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth...
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Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 period romantic comedy film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein...
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Ampersand Books. The collection explores William Shakespeare's love life, theorizing that the Dark Lady in his sonnets was a woman of African descent. In...
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Sonnet 144 (category Sonnets by William Shakespeare)
taverns. Shakespeare's sonnets are mostly addressed to a young man, but the chief subject of Sonnet 127 through Sonnet 152 is the "dark lady". Several...
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Enderby's Dark Lady, or, No End to Enderby is a 1984 novel by Anthony Burgess, the final volume in the Enderby series. It was first published in the United...
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lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. As of November...
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Sonnet 154 (category Sonnets by William Shakespeare)
the affair Shakespeare had with Emilia, the woman characterized as the Dark Lady, and the section of the Dark Lady sonnets". Shakespeare used Greek mythology...
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clearly intended by Shakespeare. Moreover, the latter half of the Sonnets depicts less flesh in the form of seduction. In the dark lady poems, the seduction...
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character whom the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets was supposedly based upon. The wife of a judge, she falls in love with Shakespeare after seeing his...
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The Tempest (redirect from Alonso (Shakespeare))
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first...
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Sonnet 129 (category Sonnets by William Shakespeare)
the 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published in the 1609 Quarto. It is considered one of the "Dark Lady" sonnets (127–152). Sonnet 129 considers...
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Othello (redirect from Othello (Shakespeare))
performed by white actors in dark makeup, the role of Othello began to be played by black actors in the 19th century. Shakespeare's major source for the play...
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characters resemble glowing spectres before a dark background. Tate Modern Tate Modern Great Paintings: Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers by Henry Fuseli...
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Romeo and Juliet (redirect from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular...
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Quest for Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare's Kings Shakespeare's Politics Shakespeare: The World as Stage William Shakespeare Shakespeare in Love Upstart...
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depicts actress Ellen Terry in a famous performance as Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, wearing a green dress decorated with iridescent...
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Sonnet 151 (category Sonnets by William Shakespeare)
sonnet form by William Shakespeare published in a 1609 collection titled Shakespeare's sonnets. The sonnet belongs to the Dark Lady sequence (sonnets 127–152)...
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Ariana Savalas (section Dark Lady)
The album was inspired by Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets. Dark Lady The Dead Dance Legendary Lover (single) Sophisticated Lady The Ménage a Tour! Live...
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