title: Kill Shakespeare Volume 4: The Mask of Night
author:  Anthony Del Col 
description: After being caught up in the characters emotional journey, thecreative team of <i>Kill Shakespeare: The Mask of Night </i>masterfullyrewards its reader with an explosive conclusion!Francis Manapul, writer/artist (<i>Flash, Detective Comics</i>)
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  The Mask of Night
  
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  Tracy Grant
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2011 by Tracy Grant
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Lauren Willig,
  
  Fabulous writer, wonderful friend, and the perfect confidante about the perils
  and delights of writing about Napoleonic spies.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,
  
  Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
  
  For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight
  
  Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
  
  What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!
  
  Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'
  
  And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,
  
  Thou mayst prove false;
  
  Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene ii
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  My heartfelt thanks to everyone who has taken Charles and Mélanie and their
  friends and family to their hearts, including my wonderful agent Nancy Yost
  and an amazing group of friends and writers—Isobel Carr, Deborah Crombie,
  Catherine Duthie, Dean James, Monica McCarty, Penelope Williamson, and Laur