William Shakespeare & the Globe
- ISBN-10
- 0064437221
- ISBN-13
- 9780064437226
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-08-08
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Aliki
Description
From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare′s world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+
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