Young Will Shakespeare has writer’s block… the deadline for his new play, a comedy called Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter, is fast approaching, he’s struggling to finish the first line of a sonnet and he’s in dire need of inspiration. Then he meets the beguiling Viola de Lesseps, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant. Viola is prepared to do anything, including risking the frosty disapproval of Queen Elizabeth I, to fulfil her illicit dream of performing on the London stage and pursuing a passionate affair with the greatest playwright of the age.
