Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier The woman behind Shakespeare's plays? by John Hudson

Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier The woman behind Shakespeare's plays?

John Hudson

408 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography historical history challenging informative slow-paced

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Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fifty-six-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII s reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lor...

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