Of Comfort and Despair

Will Shakespeare produces the greatest play about young love - Romeo and Juliet. But what of his own love? Who is the 'dark lady' he adores and curses in his sonnets?

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Derek Royle

William Kempe

Michael Hadley

Augustine Phillips

Nicholas Clay

'Hal', The Earl of Southampton

Matthew Taylor

Hercules

Janet Spencer-Turner

Mary Fleminge

Thorley Walters

Mr Justice Fleminge

Granville Saxton

Footman

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John Mortimer

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Mark Cullingham

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