WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE & THE GLOB - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0756942713 ISBN 13: 9780756942717

Publisher: PERFECTION LEARNING CORP

Synopsis

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+

About this title

Review:

"Aliki takes on an ambitious project and completes it with a pervasive sense of history and a fine sense of style. This biography of Shakespeare is also an appealing history of the Globe Theater."-- "Booklist, " Editors' Choice 1999Aliki conveys biographical facts about the Bard through lively prose and meticulously executed drawings and paintings . . .A fresh, sometimes amusing, always intriguing look at William Shakespeare and Sam Wanamaker -- two men of different centuries, each with rare genius.CCBC Choices 2000

About the Author:

With more than 60 fiction and nonfiction titles for children to her credit, Aliki has been delighting her many fans since her first book was published in 1960. Born in New Jersey, she now lives in New York City.

Aliki's books for young readers include the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out titles Digging Up Dinosaurs, Fossils Tell of Long Ago, My Feet, and My Hands. Other nonfiction books by Aliki include How a Book Is Made, Mummies Made in Egypt, My Visit to the Aquarium, My Visit to the Dinosaurs, My Visit to the Zoo, Wild and Woolly Mammoths, and William Shakespeare & the Globe.

About this edition

• Publisher: PERFECTION LEARNING CORP
• ISBN 10: 0756942713
• ISBN 13: 9780756942717
• Binding: Paperback