The Poems of Shakespeares Dark Lady - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
by Aemilia Lanyer
Category: Christian poetry, English

When Shakespeare's Sonnets appeared in 1609, the world was introduced to a dark and musical lady who was tyrannical, temperamental, promiscuous and unfaithful. Shakespeare was not the only one she was to drive "frantic mad," as the many scholars who have since tried to indentify her would agree. A.L. Rowse shows in his introduction to this remarkable book that in bringing together all the known facts about the life of Emilia Lanier, and relating these -- by dates, circumstances and evidence of character -- to what we know about Shakespeare and his patron, the Earl of Southampton, during the 1590s, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets may be seen to have given up her secret. - Jacket flap.