Even Elizabeth I and A.L. Rouse would love this one!

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 1999)

Shakespeare, the terror of High School students, turns into Shakespeare the man. Instead of the "balding bard," we meet the dashing actor with wife and mistresses. Instead of equivocating about the nebulous Dark Lady of the Sonnets, we get to meet her "in the flesh" (well, almost in the flesh.) .We hear the stage, get to visit with Queen E., have a bar-visit with Christopher Marloe, and, lots of fun with Willy Shakespeare and the boys. Not to mention hearing beautiful recitations of our beloved poetry, excellent acting, and the music! Ah the music that comes free with this beautiful play. (We even get to know Elizabezan mice! Never expected it!)
This is a fantasy in good taste and done with unusual imagination: poetic scholarship at is best.