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Copyright © 1999 by Susan Cooper
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Also available in a hardcover edition.
Book design by Ann Bobco The text for this book is set in Berkeley.
First paperback edition June 2001
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Cooper, Susan, 1935–
King of shadows / Susan Cooper.
p. cm.
Summary: While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theater, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.
ISBN 978-0-689-82817-1 (hc)
[1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Actors and actresses—Fiction. 3. Globe Theater (Southwark, London, England)—Fiction. 4. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C7878Ki 1999
[Fic]—dc21
98-51127
ISBN 978-0-689-84445-4 (pbk)
eISBN 978-0-6898-4578-9