
Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison
Not Just the Tudors
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Black Looce
Black looce may have been an epithet, but if she's also referred to as lucy negro or negro, then that it's speculatively suggest that she was like it. She is not somebody who's coming up in the witness statements. We are getting snapshots of her through. So we don't know, you know, the jury is out on that. The jury is also out, isn't it? On the idea that black looce might have been mentioned in shakespeare's sonnets. Some people think that we should abandon this sort of search for storical identities behind the sonnets altogether. And i can understand that point of view. Although a careful
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