Miranda's meetings with Shakespeare - Softcover

Ritz, Bryan Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954472713 ISBN 13: 9780954472719

Publisher: Backstage Theatre Books, 2012

Synopsis

"I enjoyed Miranda's meetings with Shakespeare" says Janet Street-Porter. A beautifully produced paper back fiction for teenagers - this is a 240 page, fully illustrated novel with also a historical background section and books for further reading. Fourteen-year-old Miranda observes by chance a rehearsal by the King's Men for the production of their most ground-breaking and mystical play The Tempest, written by their principal playwright William Shakespeare. This begins a series of exciting adventures and with the help of the boy players she befriends she discovers some of the secrets of the Playhouse and pursues her own desire to act on the stage. She discovers some of the philosophical inspiration for the playwright’s work and Francis Bacon’s special contribution to the plays. “A charming tale that magically evokes the tempestuous times and secret theatrical arts in Shakespeare’s England.” Reviewed by Tony Broadbent – author of the acclaimed mysteries: The Smoke, Spectres in the Smoke, and Shadows in the Smoke. Bryan Ritz is the principal of a large part-time theatre arts school in Harrow, North-West London and Miranda's meetings with Shakespeare is the first in an eventual trilogy about a teenager called Miranda, the character appearing in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The book explores the esoteric background to Shakespeare's plays and the involvement of Sir Francis Bacon in these creative works. This connection is explained through the hidden acrostic messages in The Tempest and other Shakespeare plays published in the 1623 First Folio. Later books will explore the use of cipher numbers more fully and will reveal the absolute proof that Shakespeare not only wrote the plays but was honoured in his life time by King James I with a cipher hidden in the King James I Bible published and edited by Sir Francis Bacon in 1611. Watch this space!

Edition details

• Publisher: Backstage Theatre Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954472713
• ISBN 13: 9780954472719
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Mullett Viv, Lehavi Talia
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240