Of Comfort and Despair
Will Shakespeare – Season 1
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?
Cast
Tim Curry
William Shakespeare
Paul Freeman
Dick Burbage
John Normington
Alex Cooke
Ronald Herdman
Sam Crosse
Ron Cook
Jack Rice
Roger Lloyd Pack
Jack Heminge
Richard Cordery
Henry Condell
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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