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Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare

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By Diane Stanley, Peter Vennema
Publisher HarperCollins
Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a smalltown boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest Englishspeaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.Drama had been forgotten since the days of ancient Greece, but it reemerged in Elizabethan London with the building of the first modern theater. Its impact can still be imagined today. 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 actorsthe leading men, the comedians, the boys who played womens rolesand the playwrights who gave them all lines to say.Best of all, there was William Shakespeare, who rubbed shoulders with noblemen and royalty as well as with the rowdy crowds at the foot of the stage. He was suspected of involvement in a treasonous rebellion, 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.Awardwinning 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 for all time.

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4199 words4,199 words
48 pages48 pages
Lexile 1030LLexile 1030L
Grade 1 to 5Grade 1 to 5
Age 6-10Age 6-10
Published 1998Published 1998

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Book ISBN:

0688162940

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