Fan Casting William Shakespeare in William and Richard

When we first meet him, he's a 20 something grammar school teacher from Stratford: a little provincial intellectual with big dreams and almost no idea how to achieve them. He's eccentric, but he's also incredibly brilliant,. He is married with a woman eight years older than him and already has two daughters. Although he's not an University wit, he's an avid reader and has a great imagination, not to mention a real way with words. As the years go by, he will assume a more practical view on things, but never letting go of his imagination until he will be sure it's time to retire; then, he will return to Stratford to live like a common man.