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King of Shadows

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Description

Nat Field’s short life has been shadowed by loss and horror. His one escape is his talent for acting, and he has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare’s Globe, London’s amazing new copy of the theater for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays four hundred years ago.

Brought from everywhere the U.S., the members of the American Company of Boys start to rehearse on the Globe. But atypical, eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat goes to bed mysteriously ill — is it the dreadful bubonic plague of the sixteenth century? He wakes up healthy, but he is no longer within the present, he is in 1599, acting on the original Globe. And his costar is Shakespeare: no longer a vague historical figure, but a quirky, warm-hearted creator/actor whose friendship changes Nat perpetually.

Nat has a new life, blazing with excitement, edged with danger, but why is he here? Is he trapped in Elizabethan London? Will he ever go home?

Playing deftly with Time and Destiny as she did in her classic fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper tells a vivid, fascinating and in the end very moving story of the painful business of growing up, against a background of the timeless, glowing magic of the theater.


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