Robert D'artagnan

Oxford Summer: Shakespeare's Dark Lady Tells All Robert D'artagnan

Perhaps nothing in all of literature has caused such controversy as the Dark Lady of the Shakespeare Sonnets. Who was she?How did she meet Shakespeare?How did their romance go wrong?Who was the young friend, the third corner of the famous love triangle?What was the effect of that romance on Shakespeare as a person and on his subsequent writings?The Shakespeare Sonnets give us only a single point of view, and an incomplete version of the story. This novel gives something never before examined. Exactly what happened and when and why . . . through the eyes of the Dark Lady herself.