The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook: Unfold the Complete Plays of Shakespeare―One Theater, Thirty-eight Dramas! (Timeline Wallbook, 1) - Hardcover

Lloyd, Christopher; Walton, Dr. Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0993284760 ISBN 13: 9780993284762

Publisher: What on Earth Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S plays are presented as never before, with all thirty-eight masterpieces simultaneously performed in front of you on a 6-foot fold-out timeline set in the iconic Globe Theatre. Spot the ghosts, hunt for the murderers, discover the poison, and revel in Elizabethan romance as each play unfolds. Concise plot summaries, key textual quotes, and carefully illustrated scenes help pinpoint the action. Developed in partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the timeline also features essential moments in Shakespeare's life providing a unique narrative context to the works of the world's favourite bard.

The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook also includes an easy-to-read chronicle that reports on more than forty seminal moments from the timeline in the style of a newspaper. Other features include a page of letters to the editor, a fifty-question quiz, and pocket magnifier. Perfect for ages 6 to 14, but equally fascinating for all curious adults too.

About this title

From the Author

"This foldout book expands to create a six-foot-long removable timeline of Shakespeare’s life, featuring panels devoted to his plays. Cartoon figures, drawn in a clear-line style, appear in key dramatic scenes, accompanied by quotations and summaries that readers can examine through an included magnification sheet (on its own, the font used for the recaps and context is almost comically small). Supplementing the timeline and its miniature theatrical stagings is the Wallbook Chronicle, which is designed to look like a broadsheet newspaper filled with fictitious Shakespeare-related stories (“Stars crossed as West Side lovers take a tragic turn,” reads the headline for a faux review of West Side Story). A selection of sonnets, letters to the editor from across the centuries, and a quiz round out this engaging resource for readers just getting to know Shakespeare and his work." (Publishers Weekly)

About the Author

Christopher Lloyd graduated with a double-first class degree in history from Cambridge University. Christopher became Technology Editor with The Sunday Times newspaper in London and is now a best-selling author of more than 15 books on world history including What on Earth Happened? The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day (Bloomsbury) and the series of What on Earth? Timelines. He is in great demand as a lecturer and public speaker throughout the world at conferences, educational seminars, museums, festivals and schools.

Andy Forshaw graduated with a BA in graphic design and illustration from London’s Central St. Martins College. In 2010, Andy and Christopher teamed up to found What on Earth Publishing with a view to establishing new ways of making big history accessible to all ages. Andy has since individually created more than 5,000 illustrations that are featured in the range  of What on Earth? timelines. When not illustrating, Andy can be found exploring the countryside on his bike.

Dr Nick Walton devises and delivers programs of study for school and university students, as well as for members of the general public. As Executive Secretary to the International Shakespeare Association he helped organize the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth World Shakespeare Congresses in Brisbane (2006), Prague (2011), and Stratford/London (2016) respectively. Nick has written introductory material for the Penguin editions of Timon of Athens and Love’s Labour’s Lost, as well as contributing a chapter on Glen Byam Shaw to the book Director’s Shakespeare, an entry in the forthcoming Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia on Shakespeare Societies, and multiple chapters in Dorling Kindersley’s The Shakespeare Book (published 2015). Nick is co-author of The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook published in 2014, a giant version of which can be viewed in the Birthplace garden. He has worked with the Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Boston, USA) on two of their Shakespearian productions, and has been a guest speaker at the British Museum, Central School of Speech and Drama, The Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, and the National Theatre. Nick was one of the presenters for the RSC’s Hamlet web resource produced by the BBC, and for their Massive Open Online Course on Much Ado About Nothing and Othello.

About this edition

• Publisher: What on Earth Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0993284760
• ISBN 13: 9780993284762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Forshaw Andy