Drama & Screenplays
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
by Bernard Shaw
The play imagines William Shakespeare waiting at Whitehall Palace for a secret meeting with his mysterious lover.
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About this book
"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.
- Format
- EPUB
- Language
- English
- Length
- 53 pages
- Published
- 1 January 1910
- Publisher
- BoD – Books on Demand
- ISBN
- 9783368305796
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