Description: It follows the story of Widge, an orphaned apprentice, in England during the 1600s. Dr. Timothy Bright, Widge’s first master, teaches the young boy a form of scriptography that he calls charactery, a type of shorthand designed to help the listener transcribe spoken words quickly and accurately. Eventually, a mysterious stranger named Falconer offers to buy Widge from Dr. Bright, who agrees to the deal. Falconer leads Widge on a perilous horseback journey, and the pair arrive in a town where Widge meets Simon Bass, his new master. Bass informs Widge that he will be using his scriptography skills to copy an unpublished play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, written by a man named William Shakespeare. Bass hopes to use the illegally copied manuscript to stage his own version of the play with his theatre troupe, thus undermining Shakespeare’s profits as well as those of the players at the Globe Theatre.
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Book Title: Shakespeare Stealer
Item Length: 7.7in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.1in
Author: Gary Blackwood
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Performing Arts / Theater, Biographical / Europe, General, Historical / Renaissance, Historical / Europe
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication Year: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Item Weight: 6.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
