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Gorgeous sentence. So evocative. I've stayed with a classic theme, and plagiarised just a few phrases from my source. Again, I've added a title, just for clarity, and I've substituted a parenthetical for commas around the subordinate phrase. I felt my sentence needed that. Here it is:

Hamnet

Consider Shakespeare, imagining that lost and doubt-tossed prince haunted by a spectral father; transposing into the gaudy world of theatre—those jeering and adoring crowds—the torment of his private grief, a full-grown projection of the lost child who endured only briefly the slings and arrows outrageous fortune prepares for us all

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