Hathaway ask: Why does the speaker keep insisting that his name is Will?

That Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, was the fabled "Dark Lady" of the Sonnets. I've known about the pun on Hathaway's name for years. And the Sonnets make it obvious that the writer is ambivalent about his feelings toward her.

But I had always assumed that the Dark Lady was a woman, possibly noble or aristocratic, whom Shakespeare had met in London early in his career. And/or the third person in a love-triangle between Will and the young man to whom the Sonnets are addressed.

Thanks for posting that, I_T_W!

In my journal page 6 today
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=journals&uid=168660&page=6
was this information about the Dark Lady.

via this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=322888

is this ~ Sonnet 18.

...Meta is dead, Jim. There will be no more group stabbings at DU.

They've declared War on the Ides of March. Traditionalists need to fight back.

a few hyena packs running lose....

Et tu Pittus?

Aye, WilliamPitt, but not gone.

And I live in San Francisco. You'd think there'd be at least one or two in The Haight, but NO! I've even stopped sending out CAVE IDES MARTIUS cards because no one ever reciprocates. Sad, sad, sad.

But one must plod on.

that's a stabbin'.

Then there's these guys: