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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. The Dark Lady is not usually seen to be married to a Dark Lord.
William Shakespeare wrote of a Dark Lady in his sonnets. The woman is described as having both dark features and having a dark nature.[1] There has been much speculation as to her true identity.[2] He also created several, doomed dark ladies as characters in his plays such as Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth.[3]
In American media, she is often portrayed as Latina.[4]
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus
Italian language, Slapstick, Zanni, Commedia dell'arte, France
William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Sonnet 20, Romeo and Juliet, Kingdom of England
Rhetoric, English art, The Lord of the Rings, Art, Latin
Tarzan, Superman, Batman, The Big Bang Theory, Star Trek
New York City, England, Orchestra, The Pickwick Papers, William Byrd
Dark triad, Harlequin, Rake (character), The Independent, Boy next door
Mythology, Beowulf, Harlequin, Archetype, Fiction