Time-Traveller's Guide to British Theatre PB Henry IV Part I Commentary: Ian McKellen (Actor)

Commentary: Ian McKellen (Actor)

ISBN: 9780713687736

From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare

and Henry V

Time-Traveller's Guide to British Theatre PB Henry IV Part I Commentary: Ian McKellen (Actor)British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And when did the story start? To find out we time travel back to the age of the first Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth century, four hundred years ago when there was not a single theatre in the land. In the company of a series of well characterised fictional guides, the eight chapters of the book explore how British theatre began, grew up and developed