Shakespeare Alive!
by Bantam

Name: Shakespeare Alive!
Brand: Bantam
SKU: 9780553270815
Rating: 3.68 (237 reviews)

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What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the engaging and informative nature of the play, which successfully connects Shakespeare's works to the cultural context of Elizabethan England. Many find it accessible, offering new insights while remaining enjoyable for a range of audiences, from students to enthusiasts. A few, however, feel the content can be tedious at times, particularly for those not deeply invested in the subject matter.

Engaging and informativeAccessible to all agesGreat insights into Elizabethan lifeContent can feel tedious at times

Synopsis

From Joseph Papp, American's foremost theater producer, and writer Elizabeth Kirkland: a captivating tour through the world of William Shakespeare.

Discover the London of Shakespeare's time, a fascinating place to be--full of mayhem and magic, exploration and exploitation, courtiers and foreigners.

Stroll through narrow, winding streets crowded with merchants and minstrels, hoist a pint in a rowdy alehouse, and hurry across the river to the open-air Globe Theater to see that latest play written by a young man named Will Shakespeare.

"Shakespeare Alive" spirits you back to the very years of that London--as everyday people might have experienced it.

Find out how young people fell in love, how workers and artists made ends meet, what people found funny and what they feared most.

Go on location with an Elizabethan theater company to learn how plays were produced, where Shakespeare's plots came from and how he transformed them.

Hear the music of Shakespeare's language and words we still use today that were first spoken in his time.

Open the book and elbow your way into the Globe with the groundlings.

You'll be joining one of the most democratic audiences the theater has ever known--alewives, apprentices, shoemakers and nobles--in applauding the dazzling wordplay and swordplay brought to you by William Shakespeare.