King of Shadows
Book description
I lay very still, with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad. The plague? Nobody's had the plague for centuries . . .
Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. As…
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1 author picked King of Shadows as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is cheating a little bit because it’s about a modern-day American boy who gets whisked back to Shakespeare’s time and befriends the playwright as a young man.
Our young actor has to figure out why he’s been sent back to this time and escape before a terrible plague wipes out much of London. I bought this book at the Globe Theatre gift shop (!) on an overseas trip on the basis of Susan Cooper’s name alone.
She wrote The Dark Is Rising Series and this is a thrilling modern classic by her.
From Fred's list on historical mysteries/thrillers set before World War II.
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