Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
Born With Teeth - cover

Born With Teeth

Liz Duffy Adams

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

'"O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!"

And so was I, which plainly signified

That I should snarl and bite, play the dog.'
Henry VI, Part 3
Christopher Marlowe – rockstar of Elizabethan theatre and notorious spy for the Crown – danger and seduction combined. William Shakespeare – jobbing actor and promising young playwright – dazzled by Marlowe, but with ambitions of his own.
When the pair meet in the backroom of a pub to collaborate on a cycle of history plays, tensions rise as they navigate the perils of art under an oppressive regime, and flirt like young men with everything to lose…
An explosively entertaining duel of wits, words and powerplay, Liz Duffy Adams's Born With Teeth is a playful and daring imagining of the relationship between two literary icons. The play was first performed in Houston, Texas, in 2022, where it won several major awards. In 2025, it received its European premiere at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End, produced by Playful Productions, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Grain of Sand Productions, directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans, and starring Ncuti Gatwa as Kit and Edward Bluemel as Will.
Available since: 08/28/2025.
Print length: 88 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Deep Wheel Orcadia - Winner of the 2022 Arthur C Clarke Award - cover

    Deep Wheel Orcadia - Winner of...

    Harry Josephine Giles

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Please note, this audio edition alternates between sections written and performed in the Orkney dialect, and their English translations. Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry is followed by a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the listener will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.
    Show book
  • Father Myself - cover

    Father Myself

    James McDermott

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father's complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.
In clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto the frontline of the pandemic – documenting the experience and trauma of a COVID-bereaved family with an unflinching eye. Both powerful and compassionate, these extraordinary poems have the capacity to go beyond simply a record of events, reaching sensitively for the human details that matter – the beat of a heart and movement of breath, the touch of a hand, the words we use for goodbye.
    Show book
  • The Cowboy Trail - Excerpts from HWY 22 Poetry songspiel & rant - cover

    The Cowboy Trail - Excerpts from...

    SallyV Truss

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A joyful blend of poetry, song and rant from SallyV Truss, who takes us on an epic journey along The Cowboy Trail  (HWY 22 - in Alberta). 
"SallyV doesn't merely read her poetry, she embodies it, captivating the audience, and breathing life into the page." ~ Sarah L. Pratt, Literary Events Manager, Owl's Nest Books 
Sally's captivating stories have an aesthetic appeal that makes you linger on the page enjoying each poem with unexpected leisure." ~ Jade O'Riley, poet, literary advocate 
"The book HWY 22 is truly an Alberta tale, told in verse, including details like good boots being necessary, small towns, driving for what seems endless amounts of time across the prairies, and the ever-present mountains. Well worth the read." ~ Karen Lee, author, memoirist 
"Sally V Truss, poet/lyricist, has come home to herself. Feel the music in her finely crafted, rhythmic words. Clever humour is tightly woven with wisdom as this immigrant girl finds her way past the tight ill-fitting shoes of her childhood to the boots that suit her. What a gift!" ~ Lana Skauge, author, master storyteller, educator
    Show book
  • Money Pursuits $ - The Money Collar - cover

    Money Pursuits $ - The Money Collar

    Mike Blake

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Money Pursuit $ : The Money Collar. 
This poem highlights the currencies that make up our money systems, and the pursuits of that money. 
The many currencies that have been created for the original sole purpose of trade and goods exchange. 
Now with the new Bitcoin revolution, how will money be applied in future and is it more corruptible than before. 
Are people corrupt and greedy for the pursuit of money or simply self serving. Updates upto 5. Feb 14th 2025. 
*NO A.I. has been used in the creation of this Poem. 
Purely the Authors inspiration. * As for all his poems.* 
To see more Poems by the same Author please click the Link HERE: 
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00SG40RM8 
To contact the Author: Please add me Mike Miko on Facebook & then message me, thanks. 
www.facebook.com/wild.poetry.webs/https://www.facebook.com/wild.poetry.webs/ 
I will then contact the Author your behalf. 
Instagram: wild_poetrys / wild.poetry.webs 
Tiktok: @wild_poetrys 
FB: https://www.facebook.com/New.Poets.Corner
    Show book
  • The Orloj of Venice - The Orloj Series: Vol 2 - cover

    The Orloj of Venice - The Orloj...

    Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Young Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II's adventure happens inside of Venice's San Marco Square's astrological clock. Exactly a year after his first quest in Prague's astrological clock, together with the same band of five harlequin dressed youngsters, he experiences a city filled with wizards, enchanters, witches, conjurers and an evil gnome. The youngsters seek clues in order to reach the mysterious the church of St. Giorgio Maggiore across Venice's basin, and become "young wizards." Once more they are guided in their quest by The Orloj, the old clock, as well as Buggie and Thumpee, his sons. Through the wicked streets and channels of Venice, the six harlequins must find six statues representing each of the human virtues of Humility, Perseverance and Grit, Loyalty, Forgiveness and the human flaws of Holding Grudges, and Betrayal. Only after they successfully master them, they earn the clues to reach the church of St. Giorgio Maggiore. The Orloj of Venice is a magical tale filled with non-stop action and thrills, a well as timeless wisdom through nine unforgettable fables and poems. 
                                                                                                                                 Blueink Review
    Show book
  • Hail the Invisible Watchman - cover

    Hail the Invisible Watchman

    Alexandra Oliver

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry—Oliver’s formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation.
		 
The poems in Hail, the Invisible Watchman are as tidy as a picket-fence—and as suggestive. Behind the charms of iambs lurks a dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. Metered rhyme sets the tone like a chilling piano score as insidiousness creeps into the neighbourhood. A spectral narrator surveils social gatherings in the town of Sherbet Lake; community members chime in, each revealing their various troubles and hypocrisies; an eerie reimagining of an Ethel Wilson novel follows a young woman into a taboo friendship with an enigmatic divorcée. In taut poetic structures across three succinct sections, Alexandra Oliver’s conflation of the mundane and the phantasmagoric produces a scintillating portrait of the suburban uncanny.
    Show book