Question
A short comedy by George Bernard Shaw depicts Shakespeare accidentally meeting Elizabeth I ("the first") rather than this character. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify this unknown female character, who is imagined with "black wires" as hair in one of the many Shakespeare sonnets depicting her.
ANSWER: Dark Lady of the sonnets
[10m] Aubrey Burl argued that the Dark Lady represents John Florio's wife, by analyzing a character who attends on the Princess of France in this play. King Ferdinand bans women from the court of Navarre in this Shakespeare comedy.
ANSWER: Love's Labour's Lost
[10h] Another candidate for the "real" Dark Lady is an English poet with this surname and the first name Emilia. That poet with this surname, perhaps the earliest woman in England to establish herself as a professional poet, wrote the 1611 collection Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.
ANSWER: Lanier [or Emilia Lanier; or Aemilia Bassano]
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