1. Rogues’ Gold
Elizabethan England, in the 1590s. Twelve-year-old Ben Button is an apprentice actor touring with Lord Bonner's Men when the company performs at a wealthy country house. A jewel-encrusted gold plate disappears and one of Ben's fellow players is accused of stealing it, placing the actor in…
2. Traitor!
Elizabethan London. Apprentice actors Ben Button and Matthew Fields are preparing with Lord Bonner's Players for a performance before Queen Elizabeth at the Rose Theatre in Southwark. Rival players, hostile moralists and the everyday hazards of the theatre create plenty of tension even before an expensive…
3. Revenge!
Elizabethan London. Ben Button befriends a young thief who is living disguised as a boy and learns that she is a runaway named Jane. Her family was dispossessed by a powerful nobleman, and she is determined to take revenge on the man she blames for her…
4. Thief!
Fourteen-year-old actor Ben Button returns to his family in the village of Hornsey after two years with the travelling players. Home is less welcoming than he hoped: his widowed mother is being courted, his younger brother resents his departure, and his grandmother has become an angry…