Fools and Mortals. Bernard Cornwell
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Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780007504145
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Version: 2018-10-17
Fools and Mortals
is dedicated, with affection,
to all the actors, actresses, directors,
musicians and technicians of the
Monomoy Theatre
Contents
Map
Part Three: Things Base and Vile
The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)
The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)
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