Shakespeare’s Lad – The Master-Mistress of His Passion

Will Shakespeare guards his heart, pouring passion and emotion into his plays. When he meets young, stagestruck chorister Samuel Guilford, Will takes his only apprentice and finds himself opening up to the kind-hearted youth. Samuel grieves his long-dead parents but finds his place with Will, whose instruction he takes but whose love he secretly desires. Will discovers he too has feelings for Samuel but fights them, even as they deepen watching Samuel’s talent develop onstage. Will finally realizes that his love for Samuel brings both of them joy, not shame, he writes Twelfth Night for and about his beloved muse. They give in to their passions at last, but can their love survive family duties, stage rivals, jealousy, the law, and the plague? Come on a journey to the Globe stage, Whitehall Palace, New Place, and the heart and soul of the world’s most famous playwright