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Blackwood, Gary. The Shakespeare Stealer. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998. Gary L. Blackwood grew up in rural Western Pennsylvania, and attended one of the last surviving one-room schoolhouses in the state. The school’s library consisted of a single small bookcase. Because books were so unavailable, they seemed like treasures. In his early teens he began submitting stories to magazines. At 16 he got his first encouraging letter from an editor, and at 19 he sold his first story. Since then he has sold dozens of stories and articles to adult and children’s magazines, published twenty-one novels and nonfiction books for middle readers and young adults, and had half a dozen stage plays produced in regional and university theatres. He has taught classes and workshops in playwriting and writing for children at several colleges and writers’ conferences. His other novels include Wild Timothy, Beyond the Door, and The Dying Sun. The Shakespeare Stealer is set in London, England during the year of our Lord, 1587. The majority of the novel takes place in the renowned Globe Theatre. This particular novel reflects a main interest of Gary Blackwood’s which goes back a long time. Blackwood’s involvement in theatre, as a playwright and amateur actor is shown in great detail throughout the story. His knowledge of theatre and Shakespeare during that time period is relevant throughout The Shakespeare Stealer. Fourteen year-old Widge has very little going for him, no family, no real name, but he possesses the rare ability to write a unique, coded shorthand that he learned from a previous master.
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Title: book report
Words: 1179
Rating: None
Pages: 4.7
submitted by: kgd428
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