From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Nights Dream Shakespeares celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature history biography archaeology and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeares worldhis life in Elizabethan times the theater world and the Globe for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the presentday reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Nights Dream Shakespeares celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature history biography archaeology and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeares worldhis life in Elizabethan times the theater world and the Globe for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the presentday reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+