title: The Groundlings of Divine Will
author:  Daniel Staniforth 
description: <i>"Written in period vernacular and ablaze with fire, the killing of heretics, sorcerers, witches, mediums and wizards, classical and mythological references, the Gods of love, which seep in and out of the plays, the book highlights the themes that would have been more pronounced in Shakespeare's time. The groundlings, imbued with folklore and paganism, see what characters represent and hide, connect Hamlet with Dr. Dee, note the shadowy characters, enjoy Iago's lies, Lear's fool and Hamlet's gravedigger and all the allegories...</i><br /><i>It is great fun and highly recommended."</i><br />- Tears in the Fence<br /><br /><i>"I read through The Groundlings of Divine Will yesterday evening, getting more enthused with it the further I progressed, as what at first looked as if it might be a mildly amusing academic squib turned out to be a wildly bemusing cultural banger..."</i>
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  Prologue
  They had tried to destroy the Will, but that proved to be beyond their
  power. So they broke it, in two ways. It was broken physically, torn apart,
  with the fragments of heavy parchment scattered across both space and
  time. It was broken in spirit because not one clause of it had been fulfilled.
  If the treacherous Trustees had their way, no clause of the Will would
  ever be executed. To make sure of this, all seven fragments of the Will had
  been hidden with great care.
  The first and least of the fragments was fused inside a single clear
  crystal, harder than diamond. Then the crystal was encased in a box of
  unbreakable glass. The box was locked inside a cage of silver and
  malachite, and the cage was fixed in place on the surface of a dead sun at
  the very end of Time.
  Around the cage, twelve metal Sentinels stood guard, eac