Most would classify
Measure for Measure
All's Well that Ends Well
Troilus and Cressida
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
and The Winter's Tale
as the darker comedies. They all have more serious themes and issues than in the lighter, sillier comedies
Dark Lady
Earl of Southampton and Dark Woman
Shakespeare uses pathetic fallacy in Macbeth when in Act2 when he is talking about the weather and the animas around them, setting a dark and evil mood.
William Shakespeare makes reference to a Dark Lady in his sonnets - but no-one knows who this dark lady is. (Shakespeare also appears to refer to Anne Hathaway in Sonnet CXLV). There may not even have been a Dark Lady: many sonnetteers at the time invented girlfriends to write poems about. We know that Shakespeare rented a room from George Wilkins early in his career. And we know that George Wilkins managed a brothel at around the same time. Perhaps William Shakespeare knew one of the working girls. (John Mortimer suggest this very convincingly in his 1977 series of TV plays William Shakespeare).
David Morris Moodie has written: 'A dark and dismal strife' -- subject(s): Biography, Coal miners, Coal mining, Coalmining, Lochhead Colliery
The likely word is "gloomy" (dark, or dismal).
dark, dreary, dismal
Gray is said to be dark and dismal as in gloomy gray skies
dark, dull, dim, dismal, blac, grey, murky, dreary, miserable, glum, dispirited
dark, gloomy, murky, shady, shadowy, dusky, tenebrous, cloudy, grey, dismal, overcast
The weather is absolutely dismal today.
No, the word 'dismal' is an adjective, a word that describes a noun (a dismal day, a dismal story).The noun form of the adjective 'dismal' is dismalness.
The forecast was dismal because there was a tropical storm in the Gulf.
dismal, dark, depressing, grim, discouraging, gloomy, hopeless, dreary, exposed, empty, barren, unsheltered
William Shakespeare Shakespeare did indeed write about a dark lady in a couple of his sonnets which has prompted some Shakespearean scholars to speculate that he had either a Jewish or a Moorish mistress. (The evidence for this is slight) There is however no play or sonnet by Shakespeare entitled 'The Dark Lady'.
Dismal means sad
Dark Lady