If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody; or The Troubles of Queen Elizabeth

About the show

This two-part chronicle play follows the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I. Part One recounts events leading to Elizabeth's accession. Part Two first follows haberdasher Hobson, his troublesome apprentice John Gresham, and the building of the Royal Exchange, then turns to Elizabeth's escape from an assassination plot and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.