After something like Hamlet?

lt eats at you.

At your soul.

Why do you think Will hasn't been arrested?

He murders a caricature of old William Cecil himself,

and still whores it all the way to Westminster and back.

Ahem. Perhaps they haven't noticed. l made sure they did.

You informed on one of your own? To the Tower?

Watch who you judge, Ben.

We do what we have to to survive and survive well in this life. All of us.

And Will is definitely not one of us.

You know he's illiterate, don't you?

Oh, he can read well enough. How else could he learn his lines?

But the man never actually learned to form his letters.

So who did write Hamlet?

A nobleman.

Yes, but which? You know, don't you, Ben?

Careful, Kit.

You sound like one of your plays.

MARLOWE: Ben! Tell me. We can go to him together.