ALL the world’s a stage, albeit sometimes a virtual one. Bolton School staged a dramatic reading of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm s ground-breaking Oliver Award-winning play Emilia, which was brought to audiences over Zoom. Emilia tells the tale of Emilia Bassano, thought to be the Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets with the play shedding light on her untold story. A woman of North African descent, Emilia transcended the prejudices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Though she was betrayed, abandoned and spurned by those she loved, and grieved the loss of a child, she dedicated herself to caring for the most vulnerable in society and produced a prodigious amount of verse to champion the cause of women at a time when it was not fashionable to do so.