Dark Lady (character)

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The Dark Lady is a stock character in fiction. Her darkness is either literal, meaning that she has a dark skin, or metaphorical in that she is a tragic, doomed figure. The two may go together, with one being an allegory for the other.

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[edit] Shakespeare

William Shakespeare wrote of a dark lady in his sonnets and there has been much speculation as to her true identity. He also created several, doomed dark ladies as characters in his plays such as Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth.[1]

[edit] In American literature

In American media, she is often portrayed as Latina.[2]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ludwig Jekels, “The Riddle of Shakespeare's Macbeth”, The Psychoanalytic Review: 361-385, <http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=psar.030.0361a> 
  2. ^ Clara E. Rodriguez (1997), Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media, ISBN 0813327660, <http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EuOhmgnKS1EC> 


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