#DecRecs copperbadge rarely needs introduction, but i’ll attempt to give him one nonetheless—sam does an excellent job blending his own style with more period appropriate language in this, the result of which is a lot of enjoyable wordplay and other turns of phrase without ever distracting from the narrative

inspired by the bit in the cold open where aziraphale and crowley watch a rehearsal of hamlet, though it’d work well enough as a pre-canon interlude for the book instead if you prefer

A Bard In The Hand (12049 words) by copperbadge
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Good Omens
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale (Good Omens)/William Shakespeare, Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)/William Shakespeare, Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)Additional Tags: Historical, References to Shakespeare, Threesome - M/M/M, Trans Male Character, Twelfth Night - Freeform, References to Hamlet, Comedy, RPF, Mention of COVID-19, mention of pandemic
Summary:

Aziraphale finds a new dinner spot, Crowley invents marketing, and William Shakespeare gets extremely lucky.