The successor to Elizabethan literature, Jacobean literature was often dark in mood, questioning the stability of the social order; some of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies may date from the beginning of the period, and other dramatists, including John Webster, were often preoccupied with the problem of evil.
Both authors reported suspicions of a dark side to tennis, questioning old-boy networks of chair umpires and promoters and the outsized role of sports agents.
It's a dark film that leaves you questioning when it's right to kill and when it's time to forgive.
But it's not just that looming specter of gay divorce (after all, that's just the dark side of equality), but questioning whether or not we should get married at all.
That has been true in Dallas in the build-up to Super Bowl XLV here tonight, but while the talk surrounding Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers has been of his part in one of the most exciting offenses in the NFL, Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers has faced questioning about a darker subject.
Bobbies, often accompanied by reporters and photographers, patrolled housing schemes, questioning youngsters out after dark on their own.
Villani has taken flak for involving himself in politics (he campaigned for Paris's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, last year) and for questioning the existence of dark matter, which many physicists believe, based on compelling indirect evidence, permeates the universe.
"I've seen him in some dark days around the New Zealand side, questioning what he was doing and why he was part of the team.
We definitely went back into vampire fiction, to the romantic type of vampire – not in the Twilight sense, but to when they were dark, doom-filled figures, who are always questioning what they're doing.
However, Guru-Murthy doesn't believe he overstepped a mark by asking about the actor's "dark periods", and has defended his antagonistic line of questioning.
