In No Bed for Bacon, originally published in 1941 and inspiration for the film Shakespeare in Love, British satirists Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon take the reader on a romp through Elizabethan England, where the charming love affair between Shakespeare and Viola unfolds alongside Sir Walter Raleigh's introduction of a strange new vegetable from the Americas, the potato, and the plight of poor Sir Francis Bacon, who is unable to obtain a bed in which Elizabeth has slept, a humiliating circumstance, since every other lord in England possesses one.