Eastward Ho!
Eastward Ho! Author: George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston
First Performance: 1605, London
Published: 1605
Genre: Com. in 5 acts; blank verse and prose
Setting: London, 16th c.
Cast: 19m, 8f, extras
William Touchstone, goldsmith, has two daughters, Gertrude and Mildred, one vain, the other modest, and two apprentices, Quicksilver and Golding, one lazy and spendthrift, the other industrious and sober. While Gertrude is to marry a nobleman, Sir Petronel Flash, Touchstone arranges for Golding to marry Mildred. Aided by Quicksilver, Sir Petronel cheats his new bride out of her dowry, but they are both shipwrecked while trying to escape ‘eastward’ to Virginia. They are arrested and brought before Golding, who is now a magistrate. Golding takes pity on the repentant adventurers but can only persuade...
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