Shakespeare
William Shakespeare wrote of a Dark Lady in his sonnets. The woman is described as having both dark features and having a dark nature. There has been much speculation as to her true identity. He also created several, doomed dark ladies as characters in his plays such as Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth.
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“O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Have you not love enough to bear with me,
When that rash humor which my mother gave me
Makes me forgetful?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)