Eastward Ho!

The Royal Shakespeare Company's 2002 season presented five classical works, rarely seen in the theatre but ripe for rediscovery by a new audience. These five plays constitute a body of work written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, presenting the great diversity of the drama of the period, from city comedy to revenge tragedy, from discovery plays to the latest addition to the Shakespeare canon. Each is published in a separate volume alongside the RSC production. Teeming with energy and larger than life characters, Eastward Ho! sees Touchstone, a London goldsmith, preparing to marry off his two daughters. Touchstone's apprentices, Golding and Quicksilver, lead the wooing until the rakish fop and adventurer Sir Petronel Flash arrives on the scene. A comedy of virtue and true love triumphing over social-climbing, deception and trickery.