Upstart Crow

Will struggles to find inspiration for Romeo while having to deal with an angry actor.

Will's new play is about to be presented to Queen Elizabeth when it goes missing.

Will hopes to move up in the world when he is invited to Lord Southampton's party.

Will has completed his final sonnet and senses literary immortality just around the corner. But will the fair youth and the dark lady like them? Is Anne likely to be impressed that her husband's 154 hot new love poems don't contain much about her?

The plague leads Will and his friends to escape to the family home in Stratford. On the way they meet three witches who have some surprising predictions to make about Will's future, leading to a very serious case of house envy.

There's money to be made investing in cargos from the New World, but while Marlowe invests in tobacco and potato products, Will would rather invest in building a new theatre.