Jonas Penrose wants nothing more than to have his plays performed on the stage of the Globe Theatre in London and to live in comfort with his mistress. Orphaned as a child and obliged to become a boy-player, by the 1630s he is struggling to make a living as an adult actor and has to accept any part he is offered. So it is that he reluctantly agrees to travel to a stately home outside London to perform in a masque celebrating the wedding of the beautiful...