About the Book: You WouldnT Want To Be A Shakespearean Actor!
Its 1594 and you are a young boy in London with dreams of the stage. But once
you join a company of players, the reality of being a Shakespearean actor is far
tougher than you imagined. You rehearse endlessly, earn almost nothing and must
memorise dozens of roles at once, all while performing outdoors for noisy crowds
who might cheer, jeer or throw food.
With women banned from the stage, youre trained to play female parts, squeezed
into corsets and judged on every gesture and line. When plague sweeps through
London and