“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
George Bernard Shaw The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Preface (1910)
1910s
Quotes from workThe Dark Lady of the Sonnets
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.
