Shakespeare's Lover

Name: Shakespeare's Lover
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ISBN: 9781445641447

ISBN-10: 1445641445

ISBN-13: 9781445641447

Edition: 2014

Authors: Aubrey Burl

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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 have – but for different women. She was well-born, or a slut, or a housewife, even a phantom of Shakespeare’s poetical mind. She was an anchor and agony to him. His sonnets sang of her loveliness and cursed her for her infidelity. The quest to…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Publication date: 9/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 4.88" wide x 7.80" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English