The Woman behind William Shakespeare and Simon Forman

Henry Carey, the sixty-one-year-old married patron of Shakespeare’s company, took Emilia Bassano as his mistress when she was eighteen. Probably in 1593 when aged twenty-nine, Shakespeare fell in love with a musical “wise…powerful” woman (probably Emilia Bassano, then aged twenty-four), writing sonn...

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