shakespeare’s

dark lady

krista lehnhardt

was shakespeare

obsessed?

obsession

passion

be wise as thou art cruel: do not press

my tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;

lest sorrow lend me words and words express

the manner of my pity-wanting pain.

if I might teach thee wit, better it were,

though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so;

as testy sick men, when their deaths be near,

no news but health from their physicians know;

for is I should despair, I should grow mad,

and in my madness might speak ill of thee:

now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,

mad slanderers by mad ears believed be,

that I may not be so, nor thou belied,

bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide

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bibliography

Meloy, J. Reid. 2001. The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives(pg. 94). Academic Press.

Schwarz, K. 2008. Will in Overplus: Recasting Misogyny in Shakespeare’s Sonnets. ELH 75(3) (pg. 737-766). The Johns Hopkins University Press.