Great moments in alternate history: Shakespeare and friends
The Elizabethan era has everything : the inscrutable lost year of William Shakespeare , his playwright / spy contemporary , and multiple plots to destroy England , and we have n’t even fetch to the alternate history yet . If you deal with the Elizabethan earned run average , you have to deal with Shakespeare plainly — Poul Anderson ’s A Midsummer Tempest mete out with an substitute account in which Shakespeare is reckon not as history ’s greatest playwright , but as its expectant historian ....