King of Shadows

ISBN: 0807282421

Author: Susan Cooper

Condition: New

Read by Jim Dale4 hours 49 minutes, 3 cassettesAn ABA Pick of the ListsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999Nat Field has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeares Globe, Londons amazing new copy of the theater for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays four hundred years ago. As the boys begin to rehearse strange, eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat goes to bed mysteriously sick and wakes up healthy. -But hes no longer in the present, hes in 1599, acting at the original Globe. And his costar is Shakespeare himself; no longer a vague historical figure, but a quirky, warm-hearted writeractor whose friendship changes Nat forever.