When a dashing African Prince comes to town, Will decides to befriend him.

When his old teacher invites himself to stay, Will must confront some awful memories.

Will has to write a romance set in an exotic foreign location Kate has fallen for Marlowe.

Will Shakespeare has invented an amazing new dramatic form: the greatest hits musical.

The women in Will's life are not impressed with his play about a strong woman humiliated.

Will's finished Romeo and Juliet but now there's competition over who will play Juliet.

Will has promised his wife Anne that he will be home in good time for a quiet Christmas with just the family. But when Marlowe, Kate and even the usually horrible Robert Greene look likely to be facing a miserable lonely Christmas in London, Will's big heart gets the better of him and he asks them all back with him to Stratford.

Things get Dickensian when a mysterious stranger inspires Will to get Greene to mend his evil ways with the help of three Christmas spirits.

A plague has hit London and Will and Kate are isolating in Will's London lodgings just before Christmas,