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A Midsummer Tempest

Name: A Midsummer Tempest
Rating: 3.55 (820 reviews)
Author: Poul Anderson

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Rupert, prince of the Rhine, escapes from his captives, the Roundheads, in a science fiction work that casts Shakespeare as an historian

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