“He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.” Hamlet, Act IV, scene 5 A very young boy is frantically seeking help for his ill sister. Judith is his twin, and her lifeblood seems to course through his veins. Her pain is his. Another young man is pondering his future. He wistfully gazes out the window, anxious to have his thoughts fly away from his present predicament—a brutish father, the smell of leather from the father’s glove-making workshop, and the tedium of his Latin tutoring days. He does not want his life to fall into the repetitive rhythm of verb conjugations. Both characters inhabit the same house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, but in different time frames from 1580 to 1596. The reader will learn that the younger boy is the son of the Latin …