The Dark Lady

The 400-year-old mystery has now been solved!



The Dark Lady finally identifies one of literary history’s most elusive figures: the black-eyed brunette immortalized in Shakespeare’s Sonnets. The investigation leads from Elizabethan London to the Mantuan and Veronese landscapes behind Romeo and Juliet, then to the French courtly setting of Love's Labour's Lost, as independent lines of proof combine to reveal, at last, the beautiful Elizabethan woman whose “eyes were nothing like the sun.”