The Earthly Paradise

Synopsis

A major new play, with its world premiere at London's Almeida TheatreJune 1871.

William Morris spends summer in Kelmscott, Oxfordshire in the company of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and their beloved Janey - the wife of one and muse of the other

It seemed that they had found their ideal, in harmony with nature, a garden of earthly delights.

But cynics whispered that the move from London was to conceal the very Pre-Raphaelite affair between Janey and Gabriel ...