Will Shakespeare: An Invention in Four Acts

_The curtain rises on the living room of a sixteenth century cottage. The walls and ceiling are of black beams and white-washed plaster. On the left is a large oven fireplace wi...

_A room in the palace, hung with tapestries. On the right wall is a heavy, studded door: on the left, a great raised seat on a low platform. On the back wall is a small curtaine...

_A private room at an inn late at night. Through the door in the right wall is seen the outer public room, with men sitting drinking. There is a window at the back, set so low i...

_The first performance of Romeo and Juliet: the end of the fourth act. The curtain rises on a small bare dusty office, littered with stage properties and dresses. When the door...

SHAKESPEARE’S _lodging. It is the plain but well-arranged room of a man of fair means and fine taste. The walls are panelled: on them hang a couple of unframed engravings, a pai...

_A room at the Palace_. ELIZABETH _sits at a working table. She is upright, vigorous, with an ivory white skin and piercing eyes. Her hair is dark red and stiffly dressed. She i...

THE EGYPTIAN [_A man in armour has flung his arm about her neck_]. Eat, drink and pass again To the lost sunshine and the passionate nights, And tell the world our story!

Oliver’s house. It _shall_ go well. I have A strength that comes I know not whence. It _shall_ Go well. And then I’ll give the Roman tale I heard at school--a tale of men, not w...

WILL SHAKESPEARE Mr. Philip Merivale ANNE Miss Moyna Macgill Mrs. HATHAWAY Miss Mary Rorke HENSLOWE Mr. Arthur Whitby QUEEN ELIZABETH Miss Haidee Wright MARY FITTON Miss Mary Cl...