The Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Bernard Shaw
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"The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" by George Bernard Shaw is a short comedy written in 1910. The play imagines William Shakespeare waiting at Whitehall Palace for a secret meeting with his mysterious lover. Instead, he accidentally encounters Queen Elizabeth I and seizes the opportunity to pitch an ambitious idea: the creation of a national theatre. Shaw wrote this witty one-act play as part of a real campaign to establish a Shakespeare
National Theatre by 1916, blending historical figures with literary mystery and theatrical ambition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Dark Lady of the Sonnets |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Lady_of_the_Sonnets |
| Credits | Produced by Ron Burkey, and Amy Thomte |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Drama |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Subject | Fitton, Mary, 1578?-1641 -- Drama |
| Subject | London (England) -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 1050 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-01050-2 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 1997 |
| Last Update | Dec 13, 2012 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1232 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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