Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe supposed dark lady of the sonnets is transformed into a convincing symbol of exploited women through the agesWhat do we know of Emilia Bassano? That she lived from 1569-1645, was the daughter of an Italian court musician, a published poet, a mother, a teacher and a feminist avant la lettre. But precisely because the known facts are so few, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm is free to invent and, in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM on August 16, 2018