Poet Caroline Randall Williams introduces a party that Lucy (Claudia Monja), Shakespeare (Owen Thorne) and the Fair Youth (Nicolas Scheuer) all may have attended in London in 1594.
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♪♪ The crux of Dr. Salkeld's urge to pursue the Lucy Negro question was her name's appearance in the records of the Ends at Court on December 20th, 1594.
Lucy, and a handful of her girls dressed as nuns, were invited to be the female guest of honor at the jest grey Orum, a series of revels put on by the young men studying law at what remains today the finest law school in London.
Among the young gentleman, incidentally was William Hatcliffe, an aspiring lawyer and favorite scholarly candidate for the identity of the fair youth in the earlier sonnets. That Shakespeare was there that night is highly likely.
There's a concrete record of his being present for the month long festivities, just a week later, putting up an early production of the 'Comedy of Errors.'
Thank you.
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