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Shakespeare: His Work & His World
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Shakespeare: His Work & His World Soft cover - 2006

by Rosen, Michael (Illustrated by Robert Ingpen)

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Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Rosen makes the life and work of Shakespeare vibrant and exciting in this perfectly splendid biography. . . . Beautiful and engaging." — KIRKUS REVIEWS Gr 6 Up. "With the exclamation point in the first chapter title and the contraction and present tense in the opening sentence, Rosen's text announces its lively and compelling colloquial style. In exceptionally fresh and vivid terms, the author plies readers with abundant, accurate information on the playwright, his theater, and the plays, looking closely at A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. He presupposes some acquaintance with the best-known works (especially Macbeth), but the chief virtue of the text is the excitement that comes through the lucid descriptions-or evocations-of the plays, the poetry, and the period. He writes, too, about those parts of the bard's life that rouse curiosity: his schooling, marriage, will. The detailed time line is especially useful. The copious and engaging pencil-and-watercolor illustrations have the burnished look of old pictures and are as glorious as the text. They will lure many young people to read (and to brave the absence of paragraph indentation), as will the book's large, open typeface and attractive design. Better even than John Russell Brown's Shakespeare and His Theatre (Lothrop, 1982; o.p.), this volume justly serves its spectacular subject." Patricia Lothrop-Green, St. George's School, Scholl Library Journal. Book is in very good condition with minor edgewear, lightly bumped at spine and lower front corner.
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  • Title Shakespeare: His Work & His World
  • Author Rosen, Michael (Illustrated by Robert Ingpen)
  • Binding Soft Cover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good +
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 111037
  • ISBN 9780763632014 / 0763632015
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.98 x 9 x 0.34 in (27.89 x 22.86 x 0.86 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 1060
  • Library of Congress subjects Shakespeare, William, Authors, English
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Michael Rosen is an award-winning author and anthologist of books for young readers including CLASSIC POETRY: AN ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION, illustrated by Paul Howard. A lifelong Shakespeare fan, Michael Rosen says of this book, "When I was a kid, I was often taken to see Shakespeare’s plays, and my parents helped me to get hold of what was special about Shakespeare. I’ve written this book in hopes that I can do something along the lines of what my parents did for me."

Robert Ingpen was born in Australia in 1936 and has published more than one hundred acclaimed books. In 1986 he was awarded the highest international accolade for his work, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration.

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About the author

Michael Rosen is an award-winning author and anthologist of books for young readers including CLASSIC POETRY: AN ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION, illustrated by Paul Howard. A lifelong Shakespeare fan, Michael Rosen says of this book, "When I was a kid, I was often taken to see Shakespeare's plays, and my parents helped me to get hold of what was special about Shakespeare. I've written this book in hopes that I can do something along the lines of what my parents did for me."

Robert Ingpen was born in Australia in 1936 and has published more than one hundred acclaimed books. In 1986 he was awarded the highest international accolade for his work, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration.

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