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Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare was once the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to change into the greatest English-speaking playwright on this planet. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the brand new world.

Drama had been forgotten because the days of ancient Greece, but it reemerged in Elizabethan London with the building of the first brand new theater. Its have an effect on can still be imagined nowadays. There were the theaters, open to the weather and featuring neither sets nor curtains, but equipped with dramatic special effects. There were the companies of actors–the leading men, the comedians, the boys who played women’s roles–and the playwrights who gave them all lines to say.

Best of all, there was once William Shakespeare, who rubbed shoulders with noblemen and royalty in addition to with the rowdy crowds at the foot of the stage. He was once suspected of involvement in a treasonous rise up, and his last play literally brought down the house when cannon effects set fire to the famous Globe theater and it burned to the ground.

Award-winning collaborators Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema have once again created a feast of words and pictures to celebrate the life of a remarkable person from the pages of history: William Shakespeare, a man forever.”

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