Widge's Responsibility In The Shakespear Stealer

The playwright Blackwood meets his responsibility by having the audience wrestle with the following three major ethical questions in The Shakespear Stealer: theft, secret and identity. Widge, the hero of the play, is a young orphan indentured to a cold and forceful master. He was ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespear’s acting troupe to steal the script of “Hamlet” with his special talent: the ability of a shorthand. When Widge was caught hiding in a balcony, he pretends to be a stagestruck, which convinces the playing troupe, and they agreed to take him in. But when the playing troupe treated him as a family member, he found the sense of belonging. He comes to realize and keep in his mind the meaning of trust, friendship and