Shakespeare's Lover: The Mystery of the Dark Lady Revealed

by Aubrey Burl

The years when she brought delight, desire and disgust to Shakespeare came after the Spanish Armada of 1588 and before the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a long, unsettled period of theatre, music, warfare and brutal death. Those years were dramatically rich. Shakespeare wrote plays including Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. And he met the 'Dark Lady'. She was musical, alluring, married and faithless. Shakespeare never identified her. Scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445641445
• ISBN13: 9781445641447
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages