FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The young man
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The young woman
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The dark young man
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The dark favored woman
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Detailed explanation-1: -Aemilia was first identified as the Dark Lady by the historian A. L. Rowse, but her status is by no means conclusive, resting mainly on her Italian heritage and dark hair (sonnet 127), on her musical ability (sonnet 128) and her involvement with another man as well as the poet (sonnet 152).
Detailed explanation-2: -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 encounters Queen Elizabeth I and attempts to persuade her to create a national theatre.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets can be divided into two great sections: The first section contains the sonnets 1-126 which are addressed to a young man, obviously a very good friend of the author who appears again in the second section; and the poems from 127 to 152 are the so-called “dark lady” sonnets.
Detailed explanation-4: -William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke Further to this, Herbert was infamous in Court for his affairs with Mary Fitton, who is rumoured to have been the inspiration for the ‘Dark Lady’ in sonnets 127-154. The connections between Herbert and the youth are obvious.