Discover the Fascinating Life and Times of One of the World's Greatest Ever Playwrights.
Here is an original and exciting guide to the daily life, heady successes, and remarkable work of a talented playwright.
Spectacular full-colour photographs of rich costumes, jewels, sackbuts, violas, trapdoors and actors offer unique "eyewitness" view of William Shakespeare, his patrons at the royal court, and the birth of modern theatre in Europe.
Features:
- See Shakespeare's family homes and haunts; famous Elizabethan actors and playwrights; an amazing cutaway reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre; how to fake a beheaded body
- Learn where Shakespeare found his best sources of inspiration; why heroines were played by boy actors; why players needed a protector
- Discover how fashion-conscious people dressed; how Elizabethans performed startling stage effects; friends and foes in cut-throat London
