Length1h 40m
About this audiobook
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short comedy by George Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending to meet the "Dark Lady", accidentally encounters Queen Elizabeth I and attempts to persuade her to create a national theatre. The play was written as part of a campaign to create a "Shakespeare National Theatre" by 1916. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length1 hr 40 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How the Play came to be Written
9Gaiety of Genius
2Thomas Tyler
10Jupiter and Semele
3Frank Harris
11The Idol of the Bardolaters
4Harris "durch Mitleid wissend"
12Shakespear's alleged Sycophancy and Perversion
5"Sidney's Sister: Pembroke's Mother"
13Shakespear and Democracy
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6Shakespear's Social Standing
14Shakespear and the British Public
7This Side Idolatry
15THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
8Shakespear's Pessimism
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