Starving Time | Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck

Survivors of the Sea Venture shipwreck off Bermuda reached Jamestown, Virginia during the “starving time” winter of 1609–1610. The English colonists’ arrival in this barren and disheartening landscape was a stark contrast to their probable utopian vision of the New World. Imagine that you are one of these colonists and craft a poem describing the reality for which you were unprepared after arriving in the New World.