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Hassinger, Peter.
SHAKESPEARE'S DAUGHTER
New York : Laura Geringer Books, 2004.
IL 5-8, RL 5.8
ISBN 0060284684
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 Can you imagine being the daughter of William Shakespeare?  Boy, the world of theater would be open to you to do whatever you wanted, right?  Wrong.  During Shakespeare's time, the theater was off-limits to women.  All the actors were men -- even the girl parts!  But Susanna Shakespeare is a gifted singer and longs to join the theater and will do what it takes to make her dreams come true.  Will all she finds be worth it?
SUBJECTS:     Shakespeare, Susanna, 1593-1649 -- Fiction.
                        Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction.
                        Sex role -- Fiction.
                        Historical fiction.
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