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Kissing Shakespeare (2012) (edit title/settings)

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Miranda has Shakespeare in her blood: she hopes one day to become a Shakespearean actor like her famous parents. At least, she does until her disastrous performance in her school's staging of The Taming of the Shrew . Humiliated, Miranda skips the opening-night party. All she wants to do is... read more

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Miranda has Shakespeare in her blood: she hopes one day to become a Shakespearean actor like her famous parents. At least, she does until her disastrous performance in her school’s staging of The Taming of the Shrew. Humiliated, Miranda skips the opening-night party. All she wants to do is... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Miranda has Shakespeare in her blood: she hopes one day to become a Shakespearean actor like her famous parents. At least, she does until her disastrous performance in her school’s staging of The Taming of the Shrew. Humiliated, Miranda skips the opening-night party. All she wants to do is hide.

Fellow cast member, Stephen Langford, has other plans for Miranda. When he steps out of the backstage shadows and asks if she’d like to meet Shakespeare, Miranda thinks he’s a total nutcase. But before she can object, Stephen whisks her back to 16th century England—the world Stephen’s really from. He wants Miranda use her acting talents and modern-day charms on the young Will Shakespeare. Without her help, Stephen claims, the world will lost its greatest playwright.

Miranda isn’t convinced she’s the girl for the job. Why would Shakespeare care about her? And just who is this infuriating time traveler, Stephen Langford? Reluctantly, she agrees to help, knowing that it’s her only chance of getting back to the present and her “real” life. What Miranda doesn’t bargain for is finding true love…with no acting required.

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  • “But I'm not crazy. Shakespeare needs our help. Desperately. All the plays and sonnets could be lost forever if we do not act now.”
    Stephen Langford
  • “The year is 1581. The time of the danger to Shakespeare.”
    Stephen Langford
  • “Over hence yonder . . . thence.”
    Miranda Graham
  • “Remember where you are. There are forces at work in the world that learned men cannot explain. How are we to account for diseases, monstrous births, and other such oddities?”
    Stephen Langford
  • “The church once performed such rituals as casting out demons, and purifying and blessing. But the Protestant clergy does not allow such practices. What is left for the common folk but to turn to magic?”
    Stephen Langford
  • “Did you know The Taming of the Shrew is still one of the most performed of Shakespeare's plays? How could audiences be so into it if, deep down, they didn't believe Katherine and Petruchio were in love?”
    Miranda Graham
  • “I tried to imagine a world without Shakespeare, without the sonnets and plays. Some of the beauty of life, the grace, would be missing. Some essential piece that defines what it is to be human.”
  • “Love would change without Romeo and Juliet. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Power, rage, jealousy -- what would they mean without Richard, Lear, Othello?”

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I was all alone backstage.

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  1. Pamela Mingle (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Delacorte
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2012
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Page Count: 352

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