... Dark Lady of the Sonnets PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS How the Play came to be Written I had better explain why, in this little piece d'occasion, written for a performance in aid of ... scene of jealousy between Queen Elizabeth and the Dark Lady at the expense of the unfortunate Bard Now this, if the Dark Lady was a maid of honor, was quite easy If she were a tavern landlady, ... Pembroke's Mother" And now to return to Shakespear Though Mr Harris followed Tyler in identifying Mary Fitton as the Dark Lady, and the Earl of Pembroke as the addressee of the other sonnets and the man...