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      HarperCollinsPublishers

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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2017

      Cover design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018. Cover images © World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo (London panorama); Ian Dagnall/Alamy Stock Photo (Shakespeare’s last will and testament).

      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Part One illustration: 17th century view of London © Private Collection/Bridgeman Images

      Part Two illustration: Elizabethan theatre scene © Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy

      Part Three illustration: The Globe Theatre from ‘Old and New London’ by Edward Walford © Montagu Images/Alamy

      Part Four illustration: Scene from an Elizabethan playhouse © Chronicle/Alamy

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007504145

      Ebook Edition © APRIL 2018 ISBN: 9780007504138

      Version: 2018-10-17

       Dedication

       Fools and Mortals

      is dedicated, with affection,

      to all the actors, actresses, directors,

      musicians and technicians of the

      Monomoy Theatre

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Map

       Part Two: Reason and Love

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Part Three: Things Base and Vile

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Part Four: A Sweet Comedy

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Epilogue

       Historical Note

       About the Author

       Keep Reading …

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)

       The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)

       About the Publisher

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      PUCK: Lord, what fools these mortals be!

       A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      Act III, Scene 2, line 115

      HIPPOLYTA: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.

      THESEUS: The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

      HIPPOLYTA: It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.

      THESEUS: If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves, they may pass for excellent men.

       A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      Act V, Scene 1, lines 207ff

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