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Alfred Leslie Rowse (1903-1997) published a biography of Shakespeare in 1963, and in 1973 controversially identified the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets as Emilia Lanier, half-Italian daughter of a court musician, with whom the Bard is alleged to have had an affair 1593-1595.

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A. L. Rowse was a English popular historian. read more...

Tags: historian, biography, sonnets

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