Stagg'ring Verse

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fear and Loathing in Elizabethan London</span></h2><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A lost manuscript discovered in a wine-stained cutlery drawer in the ruins of a Shoreditch tavern. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Is it a play? Is it a memoir? Is it a walking guide? Yes.  </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this richly imagined work of historical fiction we follow William Shakespeare novice writer and barely-cast bit player and Christopher Marlowe literary rock star and government informant on a chaotic day-long ramble through 1592 London; a city part plague part poem part open wound.  </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Accompanied by their jester-companion Torche whose wisdom is accidental and trousers questionable the trio set off from the Rose Theatre in search of inspiration.  </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What follows is a semi-drunken </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>d</em><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>é</em><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>rive </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>through bear-baiting pits apothecary markets alehouses and the profane glory of the Mermaid Tavern pursued by cryptic prophecies bad actors strange children and the unsettling suspicion that something in the city is watching. </span></p><p></p>