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THE DARK LADY PLAYERS
 A NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
“the case for Amelia Bassano Lanier is as plausible asShakespeare’s and more plausible than many others”
The Queen’s Quarterly 
 
Contact; Darkladyplayers@aol.comwww.darkladyplayers.com
 
“This research creates breathtaking new avenuesfor performance.”
 Professor Kelly Morgan, Fitchburg StateCollege, founder of the Mint Theater, New York 
The Dark Lady Players use the latest research whichshows that Shakespeare’s plays contain hiddenJewish allegories and were largely written by thefeminist poet, Amelia Bassano Lanier (1569-1645),the so-called ‘Dark Lady’ of the Sonnets. She was aMarrano Jew, whose family had come from Venice tobe the court musicians. She was mistress to the manin charge of the English theater, Lord Hunsdon, andthe first woman to publish a book of original poetry,
Salve Deus
in 1611.We perform thoseallegories onstage.Here the entry of Orlando in
 As You Like It 
, is an allegoryboth of Eden and of the Nativity of Jesus.Out of nearly a hundredShakespeare theories, theBassano Theory, also known asthe Atwill-Hudson Theory, is one of the top 8 to be listed by the UKShakespearean Authorship Trust.
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