Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glor...

"Shakespeare in his own stirring times . . . suffering or triumphant with the day's news. . . . Brilliant."—Times Literary SupplementA magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life, following young Will's maturatio...