The Shakespeare Stealer: Summary
The Shakespeare Stealer takes place in Elizabethan England during the time of Shakespeare. The main character, Widge is a fourteen year old orphan an apprentice under Dr. Timothy Bright who teaches him charactery; a secret shorthand writing. A cloaked man appears in the house offering to buy Widge off of Dr. Bright for his services. The man was the Falconer who took Widge off to London in order to perform a specific task for him; copy down Shakespeare’s Hamlet identically. While in London at the Globe Theater Widge is forced to act as an theatre apprentice which he loved. For once he had friends his age Julian and Sander, not older people he studied from. He still has intentions of stealing the play even though he became part of a family. As