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Books For Youth - Fiction - Historical Fiction
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Shakespeare’s Scribe.
Blackwood, Gary (author).
2000. 224p. Dutton, hardcover, $15.99 (0-525-46444-1). Grades 5-8.
REVIEW.
First published September 1, 2000 (Booklist).
In this sequel to The Shakespeare Stealer (1998), apprentices Widge and Sander arrive at the door of the Globe Theatre and discover a notice announcing the banning of public performances. With the plague on the rise in London, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men take their company on the road to look for towns where they can perform. On the way, the troupe finds uses for Widge’s skills in medicine and writing, along with the acting and physical labor required for the theater. Finding a man he presumes to be his father, Widge struggles with questions of identity, slowly discovering who he is and who has become his family. As in The Shakespeare Stealer , Blackwood sweeps readers along in a fast-paced tale convincingly set in Elizabethan England. Rich language and descriptions of places, along with many details of actions contribute to a setting that goes deeper than costumes and props to genuinely reach back into the reality of another place, another time. Narrator Widge and many of the other characters emerge as memorable, complex individuals that children will want to meet again — Carolyn Phelan
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Features That Discuss This Work:
1. Best Books for Young Adults : 2001
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