I was intending to review one of latest books about the bard
; Michael Rosen’s or Andrew Donkin’s The
Weird World of William Shakespeare but my heart kept tugging me back to
Marchette Chute’s Shakespeare and his
Stage and so Hamlet-like I changed
my mind.
I love Horrible Histories and I know literally hundreds of
children who do but my serious inner ten year old child also craved something else.
I had stumbled upon Shakespeare
and his stage a few weeks ago in the Amnesty Book shop in Newcastle. My
copy had once belonged to Whitley Bay South County Primary School and was the
third impression from 1964.
The blurb on the cover of this slim volume sets out its
stall; the aim of this lively book is to
recreate for the reader the Elizabethan world of the theatre in which
Shakespeare lived, and for which he wrote his plays.
The book is written in chapters and reads like a novel.
There is only one illustration in the book but the power of Chute’s prose and
her ability as a storyteller paints a vivid picture of the theatre and
Shakespeare’s life and work. The book
also provides a description of his plays, poems and songs.
‘In that age of great
singing voices, Shakespeare’s was the greatest. And even at the close of his
career, with its weight of experience and knowledge of evil, he could still write
like a young poet who had never known anything but spring.’
Shakespeare and his Stage by Marchette Chute was published
by University of London Press
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A nice find, Lynda. One can certainly discover treasures within second-hand bookshops!
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