Fool's Harbour

So, I've finished reading the play about Elizabeth I - If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody . When writing my first post about the play ( Guarded Words Around A Guarded Princess ) I'd almost finished Part I. Now I've read Part II as well, and it was strikingly different. Part I really was all about Elizabeth. Telling the story of her imprisonment during the reign of her sister, Mary, and then her ascendancy to the crown following Mary's death. Part II, in contrast, barely features Elizabeth at all, with her making something of a cameo appearance towards the end. The main storyline of Part II concerns the building of the Royal Exchange in London. The main characters being Sir Thomas Gresham, wealthy merchant and founder of the Exchange, and a wealthy haberdasher called Hobson. (A haberdasher is someone who sells fabrics, buttons and other things used to make clothes, though it also can be used to mean someone who sells clothes in general. I have to make a note of this a...