In the Shadow of the Globe ~ From the Back Cover

"In The Shadow of the Globe is an astonishing surprise. Michelle Cameron has conjured a world and spun a poetic tale that not only honors and exalts Shakespeare and his universe but brings it to vivid, visceral, and heartbreaking life. It is a unique and breathtaking work of art inspired by the man and the theatre that defined humanity in its totality."

— Bonnie J. Monte, Artistic Director, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey

Michelle Cameron’s long poem, In the Shadow of the Globe, is a tour-de-force, a breathtaking history lesson, and poetry of the highest and most ambitious order. In this astonishing work, playbills from Shakespeare’s theater company provide the locus for the different voices in Shakespeare’s world to spring to life, beautifully urgent and animated, to recount the drama of the incidents surrounding the Bard (the building of the Globe, Shakespeare’s dalliance with the Dark Lady, the plague descending upon London). In an age of slight poems and insufficient ambition, Cameron proves herself the “real thing:” a poet of daring and verve, imagination and incredible risk-taking.

— Terri Brown-Davidson, Author of The Carrington Monologues
(a narrative poem about the life of Dora Carrington)

In the Shadow of the Globe is an iridescent journey through the history, with extraordinary layers of mesmerizing, heart wrenching and inspirational insights into the lives of our antecedents at the Globe Theatre – written in crisp, haunting and moving poetry. What an educational piece this is for high schools and for Shakespeare Festivals, who would benefit by incorporating this into their education curriculum.

— Debbie Chinn, Managing Director, The Shakespeare Theatre of California