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A funny and satirical farce. Elizabeth I is dying, conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political trickery and dishonesty surrounding the ailing queen. A politically sensitive trade delegation is on its way to London. Who can be trusted to entertain them? Lucius thinks he'll hit the big time but he's reckoned without the Tudor backstabbers and the City wide-boys.

Management Teaching use: When an organisation's leader is obviously on the verge of leaving, with no clear policy for either succession or future strategy in place, the level of management below him/her jockey for position, either for themselves or, as in the case of this text, in support of a new regime that will favour their own progress or ideology. Caught in these top-level machinations are the 'little' people, the middle and lower management. The text prompts questions of what a chief executive should do before leaving, or more pertinently, how senior management can work together for their individual and collective benefit.