The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
by Bernard Shaw
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Chapters (19)
- THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
- THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
- 1910
- PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
- How the Play came to be Written
- Thomas Tyler
- Frank Harris
- Harris "durch Mitleid wissend"
- "Sidney's Sister: Pembroke's Mother"
- Shakespear's Social Standing
- This Side Idolatry
- Shakespear's Pessimism
- Gaiety of Genius
- Jupiter and Semele
- The Idol of the Bardolaters
- Shakespear's alleged Sycophancy and Perversion
- Shakespear and Democracy
- Shakespear and the British Public
- THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
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