Shakespeare's Sex Life
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The Dark Lady in Sonnet X
The dark lady is another one of these things. We just become obsessed with something that really isn't actually in the poem. What there is is a woman character who is desired by the speaker against his will, lots of puns intended. And they sometimes have sex. They sometimes don't have sex. Sometimes she has sex with his friends. Sometimes she's zangrew them. Who she was, I have absolutely no idea.
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