Myron screwed up. His job was to protect someone. He fell in love with that someone & then she died. End of story.
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...The Elizabethan golden age is over, replaced by James I's reign of terror, & William Shakespeare has been ordered out of his retirement to write one last play. He gathers together his devoted troupe & starts to compose but it will be such a searing attack on the monarchy that it can never be performed... Reading Winder is like watching a tightrope walker sling a wire between two far-distant skyscrapers & set off in the middle of a gale.. . an extraordinary performance'