In Stratford-on-Avon Shakespeare is having trouble writing 'Romeo and Juliet' and his family's interruptions do not help so he moves back to his London lodgings. Here the ...

Will's new play concerns the death of upstart Mary, Queen of Scots by Elizabeth but, after a visit by Kit Marlowe, for whom he has acted as a ghost writer in the past, th ...

With his trilogy of plays about Henry VI a success Will is invited to Lord Southampton's party. Despite Robert Greene's withering reviews, terming him an upstart crow Wil ...

Will has completed his sonnets, dedicated to a fair youth and a dark lady, the latter incurring the wrath of his wife, who makes him sleep in the cow shed. When he presen ...

Fleeing the plague in London for Stratford Will, along with servant Bottom, Kate and Kit Marlowe, meets three witches who make a prophesy which will benefit him. Back hom ...

Marlowe invests profitably in a cargo of tobacco and potatoes from the New World whilst joining Greene in mocking Will's lack of Latin. Will is planning to build a new th ...