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4-6Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books series.
Photographs by
Steve Teague.
For each of twenty-nine Shakespeare-related topics, thoroughly captioned illustrations surround a paragraph of text. Presented in loose chronological order, the subjects range from the playwright's birthplace to "country fun" to the Globe Theatre. The colorful photos are mostly of Elizabethan art and artifacts but feature a few live models wearing period clothing. The cramped page layout makes this volume more suitable for browsing than for steady reading. Ind.