What do you write after you’ve written the world’s greatest play? Hopefully, not another Timon of Athens. Fortunately for Shakespeare, he’s caught in the middle of the pandemic of 1603 and theaters are closed for a year. When he finds himself quarantined with a young Puritan lawyer and a mature streetwise prostitute, the plague has a way of opening his eyes to the mysteries of life and death. But is it possible to thrive creatively in lockdown? Will Shakespeare’s follow-up play be as disappointing as his last? Or will the next one be his masterpiece?
