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Eastward Ho

A major season of rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in Stratford Teeming with energy and larger than life characters, Eastward Ho! sees Touchstone, a London goldsmith, preparing to marry off his two daughters. Touchstone's two apprentices lead the wooing until the rakish fop Sir Petronel Flash arrives on the scene. A comedy of true love and virtue triumphing over social-climbing, deception and trickery.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
1600slondon
Audience
adult
Form
plays

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