First published 2017
This Elizabethan drama emerges from the theatrical world of early modern England, where playwrights collaborated and attribution often remained fluid. The work bears the hallmarks of its era's dramatic conventions while carrying whispers of Shakespeare's influence. Set against the backdrop of a society grappling with religious reform and moral stricture, the play explores the tensions between public virtue and private desire. Characters navigate a world where Puritan ideals clash with human nature's more complex realities. The central figures find themselves caught between the demands of social conformity and personal truth. As the drama unfolds, questions of faith, hypocrisy, and redemption take center stage. The emotional heart of the work lies in its examination of how ordinary people struggle to live up to impossible moral standards while remaining fundamentally, flawedly human.
Genres: drama, literary-fiction, historical-fiction
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: flawed-humanity, social-conformity-personal-truth
Setting: England
Period: Elizabethan, Early Modern
69 pages · Paperback · Independently published