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The Dark Lady is a stock character in fiction. Her darkness is either literal, meaning that she has a dark skin, or metaphorical in that she is a tragic, doomed figure. The two may go together, with one being an allegory for the other.
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Shakespeare
William Shakespeare wrote of a Dark Lady in his sonnets. The woman is described as having both dark features and having a dark nature.[1] There has been much speculation as to her true identity.[2] He also created several, doomed dark ladies as characters in his plays such as Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth.[3]
In American literature
In American media, she is often portrayed as Latina.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Hudson Shakespeare Company, Dark Lady Sonnets
- ^ PBS, In Search of Shakespeare: Emilia Lanier (the Dark Lady?), series originally broadcast February 4th - 25th, 2004
- ^ Ludwig Jekels, "The Riddle of Shakespeare's Macbeth", The Psychoanalytic Review 30: 361–385, http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=psar.030.0361a
- ^ Clara E. Rodriguez (1997), Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media, Boulder, Colo. ;Cumnor Hill, Oxford: Westview Pr., ISBN 0813327660, http://books.google.com/?id=EuOhmgnKS1EC
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