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Chrisp, Peter

Welcome to the Globe!: The Story of Shakespeare's Theater

48 pp. | DK | October, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-6641-4 $$12.95 | Paper ISBN 0-7894-6640-6 $$3.95

(3) K-3 Dorling Kindersley Readers series. Some people associated with the Globe in 1602 (e.g., a waterman, the Burbage brothers, a cut-purse, and a groundling) offer brief first-person, behind-the-scenes looks at different aspects of the theater. Sidebars include supplemental information, and concluding chapters discuss later-seventeenth-century events and the 1997 replica. Illustrated with adequate paintings and small photos, this book may inspire further study. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Barbara Barstow