It's 1603, and William Shakespeare is having issues. One of his actors, John Underwood, has stolen a partial script for Hamlet, and plans to produce it out in the English countryside. So Shakespeare dispatches actor William Slye to sabotage the production. But when a beautiful young woman wants to act in the play--contrary to the law--she pits to the two against each other.Hamlet Overheard is a funny, energetic tale of the creation of the Bad Quarto of Hamlet and the state of Elizabethan theatre.