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Article: Hamlet's Dresser.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
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- Kliatt
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- January 1, 2004
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Bob Smith. 2002. Read by the author. 7 tapes. 10 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 0-7861-2400-8. $35.95. Cardboard; content notes. SA
Born in 1941, Bob Smith has led a life overshadowed by two people, his sister Caroline and William Shakespeare. Caroline was born in 1944, a beautiful baby with golden hair and startling blue eyes who was so retarded that she developed only a small vocabulary. Bobby was her caregiver. "Bobby" was one of her few words. In 1958, Smith got the opportunity to be Hamlet's dresser in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Although he made only S18 a week, he was paid in other ways. He came to love Shakespeare's plays and to meet famous actors such as ...