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Macbeth’s witches were never very clear on answers, and they are no different here. So we have the usual start of a confused young person trying to find out what’s going on, being given a token, which helps her to find her way to someone who might have some answers. That adds to the general sailors’ view that he’s a bit strange. We also see Dreng’s point of view on these other-worldly encounters. She does the same to herself at home, at an earlier time. First she watches, then encounters, Dreng from the rigging on a ship. This starts with Alda having various pseudo-time-travel experiences. ‘Curious newcomer’ is probably my category, although with the degree of familiar phrases, maybe I’m in the ‘Shakespeare journeyman’ class. Shakespeare experts and curious newcomers alike will enjoy these original adventures. Ultimately, Alda must find power she gained in a forgotten realm to defeat a dreadful summoner, and Dreng must awaken to the realities around him before they are both consumed by magic.

NETHERFIELDS AWAKEN REALMS FREE

They are finally united on an enchanted island, where Alda is on a quest to free a magical being, and Dreng is smitten with a mysterious young woman. These stories and more come to life in Cauldron’s Bubble as readers explore the worlds of Shakespeare’s plays with an orphan girl named Alda and a cabin boy called Dreng, who each search for something lost.Īlda discovers a magical bubble that transports her to witches on a moor. Imagine that Shakespeare’s characters could interact off-stage and that their adventures could span beyond the bounds of the Bard’s fiction: Hamlet deviously escapes from pirates who capture him on his way to England Macbeth’s witches perform their magic on unsuspecting victims and a shadowy figure awakes from the backstory of The Tempest.

But will they escape with their lives? Or will they become lost and forgotten? She, along with a cabin boy called Dreng, must navigate the conflicts and characters of Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest. A magical bubble transports Alda through time and place to a realm of witches and curses, pirates and princes, and the lost worlds of Shakespeare.

Netherfields awaken realms