King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
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King of Shadows

Author: Susan Cooper

Narrator: Jim Dale

Unabridged: 4 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2013


Synopsis

Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater.

Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years--to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life--in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?

About The Author

Susan Cooper is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor and has sold millions of copies worldwide. She is also the author of Victory, a Booklist Top Ten Historical Fiction for Youth book and a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel; King of Shadows, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor book; The Boggart; Seaward; and many other acclaimed novels for young readers. She lives in Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daisy May on May 09, 2011

Oh this is good. The protagonist, Nat Field, is a young actor who has come over to play at the Globe with his company. Somehow he goes to bed feeling ill and then wakes up in Shakespearean England. With Shakespeare. The rest of the novel is concerned with his adventures in this time period and also......more

Goodreads review by Claire on August 14, 2015

A well written tale of time travel wrapped around some of Shakespeare’s most famous works. The central character, Nat, is a member of a theatre troupe for boys who perform Shakespeare’s plays as they are meant to be performed- at the Globe Theatre in London with an all male cast. They will be perfor......more

Goodreads review by Joanna on March 17, 2014

I remember reading Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series as a kid and loving it. When I needed a book with Shakespeare as a character for a reading challenge this season, this seemed like a decent choice. Not really recommended for adult readers, but might be a good choice for a teen who is also......more