3.6
King of Shadows
by Susan Cooper
Product Description Read by Jim Dale4 hours 49 minutes, 3 cassettesAn ABA Pick of the ListsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999Nat Field has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare's Globe, London's amazing new copy of the theater for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays four hundred years ago. As the boys begin to rehearse strange, eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat goes to bed mysteriously sick and wakes up healthy. —But he's no longer in the present, he's in 1599, acting at the original Globe. And his costar is Shakespeare himself; no longer a vague historical figure, but a quirky, warm-hearted writeractor whose friendship changes Nat forever. Review "Cooper brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe Theatre as backdrop, to demonstrate the timelessness of Shakespeare's works and the theater at large." -Publishers Weekly, starred review From the Inside Flap Read by Jim Dale4 hours 49 minutes, 3 cassettesAn ABA Pick of the ListsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999Nat Field has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare's Globe, London's amazing new copy of the theater for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays four hundred years ago. As the boys begin to rehearse strange, eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat goes to bed mysteriously sick and wakes up healthy. ?But he's no longer in the present, he's in 1599, acting at the original Globe. And his costar is Shakespeare himself; no longer a vague historical figure, but a quirky, warm-hearted writeractor whose friendship changes Nat forever. From the Back Cover "Cooper brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe Theatre as backdrop, to demonstrate the timelessness of Shakespeare's works and the theater at large." -Publishers Weekly, starred review About the Author Susan Cooper is best known for her acclaimed sequence of fantasy novels known as The Dark is Rising. Born in Buckinghamshire, England, Susan Cooper moved to the United States in 1963 and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From AudioFile The heady thrill of acting at Shakespeare's original Globe Theater. The ripe smell of the groundlings crowded in a mob below the stage. The exhilaration of meeting the devoted Queen Elizabeth behind the scenes. Nat Field can barely imagine how that all might feel as he prepares to accompany his director to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream at London's modern Globe reproduction theater. Jim Dale, himself a Shakespearean actor, and now familiar to many as the versatile reader of the Harry Potter titles, reads King of Shadows forcefully, with the intensity demanded by a story that employs bubonic plague as a time-travel device to transport a contemporary boy to 1599. Dale's accent, which leans slightly toward a drawl when Nat is speaking, is, nevertheless, predominantly British, and works less effectively for American secondary characters, though superbly for Londoners. T.B. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Children's Books
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERListening Library
LENGTH49
LANGUAGEEN
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology, such as the Arthurian legends, and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. [Wikipedia]
3.6
King of Shadows
by Susan Cooper
Product Description Read by Jim Dale4 hours 49 minutes, 3 cassettesAn ABA Pick of the ListsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999Nat Field has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare's Globe, London's amazing new copy of the theater for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays four hundred years ago. As the boys begin to rehearse strange, eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat goes to bed mysteriously sick and wakes up healthy. —But he's no longer in the present, he's in 1599, acting at the original Globe. And his costar is Shakespeare himself; no longer a vague historical figure, but a quirky, warm-hearted writeractor whose friendship changes Nat forever. Review "Cooper brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe Theatre as backdrop, to demonstrate the timelessness of Shakespeare's works and the theater at large." -Publishers Weekly, starred review From the Inside Flap Read by Jim Dale4 hours 49 minutes, 3 cassettesAn ABA Pick of the ListsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999Nat Field has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare's Globe, London's amazing new copy of the theater for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays four hundred years ago. As the boys begin to rehearse strange, eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat goes to bed mysteriously sick and wakes up healthy. ?But he's no longer in the present, he's in 1599, acting at the original Globe. And his costar is Shakespeare himself; no longer a vague historical figure, but a quirky, warm-hearted writeractor whose friendship changes Nat forever. From the Back Cover "Cooper brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe Theatre as backdrop, to demonstrate the timelessness of Shakespeare's works and the theater at large." -Publishers Weekly, starred review About the Author Susan Cooper is best known for her acclaimed sequence of fantasy novels known as The Dark is Rising. Born in Buckinghamshire, England, Susan Cooper moved to the United States in 1963 and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From AudioFile The heady thrill of acting at Shakespeare's original Globe Theater. The ripe smell of the groundlings crowded in a mob below the stage. The exhilaration of meeting the devoted Queen Elizabeth behind the scenes. Nat Field can barely imagine how that all might feel as he prepares to accompany his director to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream at London's modern Globe reproduction theater. Jim Dale, himself a Shakespearean actor, and now familiar to many as the versatile reader of the Harry Potter titles, reads King of Shadows forcefully, with the intensity demanded by a story that employs bubonic plague as a time-travel device to transport a contemporary boy to 1599. Dale's accent, which leans slightly toward a drawl when Nat is speaking, is, nevertheless, predominantly British, and works less effectively for American secondary characters, though superbly for Londoners. T.B. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Children's Books
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERListening Library
LENGTH49
LANGUAGEEN
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology, such as the Arthurian legends, and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. [Wikipedia]
