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Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Mid Summer Night's dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years---to another London, and another production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life---in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?

Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?

Nat Field can forget all his sorrows and problems when he's on the stage. He loves to act, to submerge his own personality into one of Shakespeare's characters. He's one of 40 boys, aged 11 to 18, lucky and talented enough to be selected for The Company of Boys. The Company will go to London to put on Midsummer Night's Dream and Julius Caesar. Nat is thrilled, even though the company's director is tyrannical and extremely strange. Then Nat falls sick, and when he wakes from his fever he's somewhere else -- it's London, all right, but the London of 1599, and the play he's to act in is directed by William Shakespeare himself.

While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself. While in London as part of an acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field is transported back to 1599 and performs in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare.

While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself. While in London as part of an acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field is transported back to 1599 and performs in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare.