The Play's the Thing: A Story about William Shakespeare

by Ruth Turk

Book Overview

The year was 1569 and the place was Stratford-on-Avon, just ninety miles from London. A little boy watched a company of traveling actors perform on a makeshift stage. No one could have known that the child, whose name was William Shakespeare, would one day become the most famous playwright in history. This is the story of the man who wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and many other plays that have been performed and enjoyed again and again...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575052121
• ISBN13: 9781575052120
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6