Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare's plays? by John Hudson

Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare's plays?

John Hudson

288 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction biography historical history challenging informative slow-paced
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Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII's reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord...

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