Dark Lady

Emilia Bassano Lanyer—poor, beautiful, and intelligent, born to a family of Court musicians and secret Jews, lover to Shakespeare and mistress to an older nobleman—survives to become a published poet in an era when most women’s lives are rigidly circumscribed.

Emilia Bassano Lanyer -- saraca, frumoasa si inteligenta, nascuta intr-o familie de muzicieni de la Curte si evrei secreti, iubitoare de Shakespeare si amanta de un nobil mai in varsta -- supravietuieste pentru a deveni poeta publicata intr-o epoca in care viata majoritatii femeilor este strict circumscrisa.