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Elizabethan historian claims diary reveals Shakespeare's mistress
Elizabethan scholar A L Rowse says documentary evidence from the Forman diaries identifies Shakespeare's dark lady as a married half Italian daughter of a court musician. He asserts the woman was Shakespeare's true lover and that the revelation will reshape views of his private life with a dramatic, tragic romance.
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