Time-Traveller's Guide to British Theatre PB notebooks Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream like you’ve never seen it – or read it – before

former artistic director of the Sheffield Crucible and the Donmar Warehouse in London

and charting how his legacy has grown over the centuries

lays his claim to the English throne amid the turmoil

Time-Traveller's Guide to British Theatre PB notebooks Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s DreamBritish 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