Shakespeare for everyone – Emma Roberts

The story book Shakespeare for everyone by Emma Roberts takes the reader to Elizabethan England on a travel back 400 years to discover the history, comedy and tragedy of the world’s greatest playwright.

Visit rowdy theatres and royal palaces to understand what it was like to live in Shakespeare’s England and the influence this period had on his ground-breaking literary work!

Shakespeare for everyone charts Shakespeare’s phenomenal talent and peeks behind the curtain at his most famous plays, from tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet to comedies such as a midsummer night’s dream and taming of the shrew.

Learn how Shakespeare came to write some of the greatest works of literature and how his words changed our world forever.

Emma Roberts is a children’s author and editor from London who lives with her two rescue dogs, Frodo and Arya. She studied classics at Cambridge University, where she fully indulged her life-long passion for all things Shakespeare in the student-theatre scene. When Emma isn’t queuing for tickets at the Globe, she is either performing in local theatre or training for her next marathon. Her latest book, the dragon ark, was published by Magic Cat in 2020.

Sarah Tanat-Jones is an illustrator who grew up in Brighton, studied at Edinburgh College of Art, moved to Glasgow for a bit, and now lives in London. She likes to pair energy with elegance in her illustrations by using bold colour and a flowing, hand-drawn line. She works across editorial, publishing and advertising and her clients include the Washington post, the Guardian, the Sunday times and time out.

Shakespeare for everyone is published by Magic Cat Publishing and is recommended for children aged 7 years and up.

Contents:

1 hardback book in English, 64 pages.