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1. What You Will by thisisforyou

   Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   20 Sep 2018

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
   • Sherlock Holmes
   • John Watson
   • William Shakespeare
   • Molly Hooper
   • Greg Lestrade
   • Mycroft Holmes
   • Sally Donovan
   • Elizabeth I of England
   • Alternate Universe - Historical
   • Shakespeare
   • Lord Chamberlain's men
   • actors!au
   • Slow Build
   • First Time
   • First Kiss
   • Gender Issues
   • men playing women playing boys
   • Twelfth Night - Freeform
   • A Midsummer Night's Dream - Freeform
   • Hamlet - Freeform
   • As You Like It
   • Richard III - Freeform
   • The Abbey Grange
   • The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

   Summary

   Or, This Great Stage of Fools.

   Shakespeare AU.

   John Watson is the star player in William Shakespeare's theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men: Sherlock Holmes is a freelance actor who plays female parts and solves crimes in his free time. When they are romantically set opposite each other in Shakespeare's new play and simultaneously thrown together to catch a jewel-thief, sparks fly in ways nobody expects...

   Language:

   English

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