[16], Saul Frampton of the University of Westminster identifies Samuel Daniel's birthplace as Wilton, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, citing William Slatyer's The history of Great Britain (1621), with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography also recording a connection between the Daniel family and Marlborough. She might have been a musician because she was a member of the Bassano family which was famous for providing the music to entertain the Courts of Elizabeth I and James I. In 1974 Lea Laven recorded the Finnish rendering of "Dark Lady" entitled "Tumma nainen". The speaker introduces the woman by explaining that her beauty is unconventional: From the poet’s perspective, he is treated badly by the dark lady. Harrison "tentatively" proposes Black Luce as the Dark Lady. Unlike the other videos, "Dark Lady" was unique because both the live-action and the animated videos had been mixed. "The Dark Lady" redirects here. "Normally, all of my songs have at least a little bit of a message. The friend is a male while the lady is dark and not fair. At the end of the episode, after deducing that she is from the future, he calls her his "dark lady" and recites Sonnet 18 for her.

It was here she inherited the name Móriwen, by the Elves of Lothlórien, for she was dark-haired, and loved the twilight. [13][20][21], Based upon the recurring theme in the early sonnets of two men vying for a lady's affection, often assumed to be Shakespeare and William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Herbert's mistress Mary Fitton has accordingly been proposed as the "Dark Lady". If this were referring (in today’s terms) to his "brother-in-law" this could, therefore, have been the marriage of either man’s sister to the other. When discussing William Shakespeare's sonnets, the master list can be broken down into three sections: the Fair Youth Sonnets, the Dark Lady Sonnets, and the Greek Sonnets. A widely held scholarly opinion, however, is that the "dark lady" is nothing more than a construct of Shakespeare's imagination and art, and any attempt to identify her with a real person is "pointless". The song was also a #1 hit in Canada and Sweden, a top 10 hit in Norway and a top 20 hit in the Netherlands. Also known as the Black Sonnets, the Dark Lady Sonnets are numbers 127–152. Would you like to become a site member? The song became Cher's third solo U.S. #1 hit on March 23, 1974, and her last until "Believe", 25 years later. Tour, for the first time in twenty-five years. Why is it so difficult reading Shakespeare's language? Some believe that she might be of Mediterranean descent with dark hair and dark eyes of Greece, Spain, Italy and Southern France. The "not impeccable" reasoning provided by Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a lecturer in literary history, to justify the claim does not form a strong case, comprising little more than: “as a Frenchwoman…she would have had dark eyes, a sallow complexion and that indefinable charm", so matching the character in the sonnets. The dark lady is a woman antithetically balancee with the fair friend. She seems to be linked to the young man of the Fair Youth Sonnets in some way, and some sonnets suggest that she is having a passionate affair with him. I telegraphed the unfinished lyrics to Garrett.