William Shakespeare and His Times

Start-to-Finish: Core Content (Blue) The Start-to-Finish Core Content collection offers age-appropriate, multi-format informational text to build comprehension skills for content mastery. The Start-to-Finish Blue Core Content books offer 4th-5th grade readability and each set contains a paperback book, a computer CD ROM book, an audio book and a reference guide. NOTE: A portable USB DVD writer is available for loan if your computer system does not have a CD/DVD drive. Many people call William Shakespeare the greatest writer who ever lived. This book answers many questions about the life and times of this famous writer: What sort of childhood did Shakespeare have? What was the dirty and violent side of London in Shakespeare’s time? How did Queen Elizabeth punish her enemies? What was wild about acting in English theaters 400 years ago? What killed 11,000 people in London in the 1500s? And the biggest question of all: Did Shakespeare really write all those famous plays?