Twelve-year-old orphan Christopher "Kit" Buckles becomes a stage boy in a London theater in 1598, tries his hand at acting, and later helps build the Globe Theater for playwright William Shakespeare and the Chamberlain's Men acting troupe.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, fiction, theater, apprentices, actors, orphans, fiction, great britain, history, elizabeth, 1558-1603, fiction