Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 27, 2015
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- Who it’s for
- Explore the playwright’s life, times, and theater, with a few mysteries left open.
- Themes
- Shakespeare's life and legacy, Theater and literary influence
- Genres
- Writers' Lives for Kids, Theater & Plays, Renaissance for Kids
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Celebrate 400 years of Shakespeare's legacy with this repackage of award-winning author Diane Stanley's tribute to the world-famous playwright William Shakespeare. Nobody knows exactly when or why William Shakespeare left his boyhood home of Stratford-on-Avon for the great city of London, but it didn't take long for him to make a name for himself.
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His plays are now performed almost every day in just about every part of the world; even people who've never seen them use words and phrases he introduced into the English language. How did a man from an unremarkable family create a legacy that the world, even 400 years after his death, has never forgotten? There will always be unsolved mysteries about Shakespeare, but what we do know of his life, his times, and his theater makes for a very dramatic story.
Shakespeare in Context
Explore the playwright’s life, times, and theater, with a few mysteries left open.
Come here for
- The man behind a four-century legacy
- How Shakespeare’s words reached far beyond the stage
Expect
- A dramatic account of his life and theater
- Some questions remain unanswered
Where it sits
| Writers' Lives for Kids | 63% |
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| Renaissance for Kids | 60% |
| Theater & Plays | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Activity Books
- Art History for Kids
- Artists' Lives for Kids
- Writers' Lives for Kids
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- Performers' Biographies for Kids
- Kids' Drama & Plays
- Puzzles
- Word Games
- Authors
- Diane Stanley, Peter Vennema
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 27, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Shakespeare's life and legacy · Theater and literary influence
- Reading lane
- Activity Books