By Bernard Shaw

CONTENTS

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

How the Play came to be Written

Thomas Tyler

Frank Harris

Harris "durch Mitleid wissend"

"Sidney's Sister: Pembroke's Mother"

Shakespear's Social Standing

This Side Idolatry

Shakespear's Pessimism

Gaiety of Genius

Jupiter and Semele

The Idol of the Bardolaters

Shakespear's alleged Sycophancy and Perversion

Shakespear and Democracy

Shakespear and the British Public

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

1910