page_title: Emilia Lanier
section_title: Dark Lady theory
hierarchical_section_title: Emilia Lanier / Dark Lady theory
caption_attribution_description: English: so-called Zucchero or Zuccari portrait of Shakespeare, as reproduced c 1800. Attributed to Federico Zuccari
context_page_description: Emilia Lanier, née Aemilia Bassano, was an English poet in the early modern era. She was the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet, through a single volume of poems, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Attempts have been made to identify her with Shakespeare's "Dark Lady".
caption: So-called Zucchero or Zuccari portrait said to be of Shakespeare, as reproduced c 1800. Attributed to Federico Zuccari
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