The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

PlayEnglish · 1910

Written by George Bernard Shaw.

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A short comedy by George Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, waiting at Whitehall Palace for a secret meeting with the Dark Lady of his sonnets, encounters Queen Elizabeth I instead. Shaw wrote the play in support of the campaign for a national theatre, and it was first performed in 1910.

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Dark Lady of the Sonnets

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May 2013

Amsterdam · Noord-Holland · Netherlands

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