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The Playmaker
The Playmaker
Author: J.B. Cheaney
The year is 1597. Elizabeth is queen. Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men are packing London’s Globe Theatre. And the severed heads of Catholic insurgents are impaled on the Tower’s gates. One 14-year-old boy should arouse no one’s interest. — But within a week of his arrival, Richard Malory is robbed, beaten, and t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440417101
ISBN-10: 0440417104
Publication Date: 2/12/2002
Pages: 320
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Yearling
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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His father has disappeared and his mother has died - 14 year-old Richard sets out to London to seek his father and his fortune - and finds himself an apprentice actor in William Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. As he slowly learns the acting trade, he gets embroiled in a dangerous mystery and the on-going struggle of the times between the Protestant and the Catholic faiths. An adequate historical novel and mystery for older children, with some interesting comments on some of Shakespeare's plays, through the eyes of the actors.

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