Shakespeare Alive!

America's Foremost Theater Producer Brings Shakespeare's England to Life

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Mass Market Paperback
$7.99 US
On sale Jan 01, 1988 | 240 Pages | 9780553270815

From Joseph Papp, America's foremost theater producer, and writer Elizabeth Kirkland, Shakespeare Alive! recreates Shakespeare's London as everyday people might have experienced it. Through Papp and Kirkland's richly detailed book, students will find out how young Elizabethans fell in love, how the city's workers and artists made ends meet, what people found funny and what they feared most. They will go on location with an Elizabethan theater company to learn how plays were produced, where Shakespeare's plots came from and how he transformed them. And they will hear the music of Shakespeare's language and words as part of one of the most democratic audiences the theater has ever known-alewives, apprentices, shoemakers and nobles-together applauding Shakespeare's dazzling wordplay and swordplay inside the Globe Theater.

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From Joseph Papp, America's foremost theater producer, and writer Elizabeth Kirkland, Shakespeare Alive! recreates Shakespeare's London as everyday people might have experienced it. Through Papp and Kirkland's richly detailed book, students will find out how young Elizabethans fell in love, how the city's workers and artists made ends meet, what people found funny and what they feared most. They will go on location with an Elizabethan theater company to learn how plays were produced, where Shakespeare's plots came from and how he transformed them. And they will hear the music of Shakespeare's language and words as part of one of the most democratic audiences the theater has ever known-alewives, apprentices, shoemakers and nobles-together applauding Shakespeare's dazzling wordplay and swordplay inside the Globe Theater.

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