The mistress

Who is the mistress in William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”? We help you understand this here.

The woman is described as dark 

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in total. While the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a “fair youth”, the last 28 are addressed to a “dark lady”.  The speaker of the sonnets appears to love them both but he is troubled when the dark lady and the fair youth eventually end up together. This bizarre l...