Edited sentence: As she encourages women to have confidence in themselves in her poetry, Emilia was different from other passive women.In The Merchant of Venice, there is a protagonist named Bassanio, which sounds like Bassano, falling in love with a beautiful woman.Moreover, in The Spanish Tragedy, the pre-Shakespearean play, the names of three sons of the protagonist, Jeronimo, are the same as the names of three children of Antonio Bassano.Shakespeare might have grown on her because of her original boldness, her occupation as a musician, and her origin being from Italy.Shakespeare named many characters similar to the names of several members of Bassano family.The characters’ names of Shakespeare’s plays can also prove that Emilia Lanier was the Dark Lady