The wife of John Florio, a linguist and translator of Montaigne, who may have been satirised as the pedantic Holofernes In Love’s Labour’s Lost.Black Luce, a brothel owner in Clerkenwell.Emilia was also a member of the Venetian Bassano family, who were musicians at court. Emilia Lanier - mistress of Lord Hunsdon, (Henry Carey) the Lord Chamberlain, and thus Shakespeare’s boss, as patron of his company.Mary Fitton - maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, and the mistress of William Herbert.No one knows the identity of the 'Dark Lady' but possible candidates include: Far from idealising a perfect woman, they feature a female lover accused of making the poet sexually obsessed, furiously jealous, of cheating on him, stealing away his boy friend, and giving him a dose of the clap.
SONNET EXAMPLES BY STUDENTS ABOUT LIFE SERIES
Towards the end of the series there are 28 sonnets addressed to a woman. He has the correct initials, just reversed - perhaps to conceal his identity.
They may be addressed to a series of different people. WHO Did SHAKESPEARE ADDRESS WITH HIS SONNETS?