The dark lady's mask
By: Mary Sharratt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780544300767
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: English Women poets; Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Description: Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring writer Aemilia Lanier falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.