Historical Fiction -- 3 stars
In a departure from his usual British war/battle historical fiction novels, Mr. Cornwell moves to Elizabethan England and William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is unhappy he must interrupt his writing of Romeo and Juliet in order to write a wedding play, in this case A Midsummer Night's Dream, to pay the bills and keep the playhouse open. In a historically correct background of competing playhouses and Puritan wrath toward anything even vaguely identifiable as entertainment, his manuscripts disappear. Was it another playhouse? The Puritans? His brother? Not as deep or heavy as his usual books, but still an interesting harvest of history and historical figures used to move the plot along. It's just disappointing that it somehow was mostly predictable.
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