BARD OF AVON: The Story of William Shakespeare
by STANLEY, Diane & Peter Vennema
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0688091083
- ISBN 13
- 9780688091088
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About This Item
Morrow Junior Books, 1992. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Diane Stanley. CONDITION: What makes this book "like new?" - no DJ nor credits page. UNREAD 1992 Morrow Junior Books hardcover (pictorial boards), NO DJ. Great full-page, historically accurate color illustrations by Ms Stanley. CONTENT: William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking 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 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 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.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002549
- Title
- BARD OF AVON: The Story of William Shakespeare
- Author
- STANLEY, Diane & Peter Vennema
- Illustrator
- Diane Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Printing Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0688091083
- ISBN 13
- 9780688091088
- Publisher
- Morrow Junior Books
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, Shakespeare for kids, Shakespeare biography, 0688091083, 9780688091088, Elizabethan Era, Elizabethan London w, Globe Theatre,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Children's Books: Educational; Children's Books: Biography; Children's Books: Shakespeare; Children's Books: Picture Books; Shakespeare;
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