King of Shadows - Oxford Playscripts

Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream

As rehearsals begin, eerie echoes of the past begin to haunt Nat, and he falls sick with a mysterious sickness

When he wakes, Nat finds himself in 1599, an actor at the original Globe - and his co-star is none other than the King of Shadows himself - William Shakespeare!

Nat's new life is full of excitement, danger and the passionate friendship that he has longed for since the tragic death of his parents

But why has he been sent to the past?

And is he trapped there forever?

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