The Shakespeare Stealer is a 1998 historical fiction novel by Gary Blackwood. Taking place in the Elizabethan-era England, it recounts the story of Widge, an orphan whose master sends him to steal Hamlet from The Lord Chamberlain's Men. If we skip the opening setting of Mistress MacGregor's orphanage, then the three settings of The Shakespeare Stealer are the rectory in "the nearby hamlet of Berwick"; the home of Mrs. and Dr. Timothy Bright, a medical practitioner who had studied at Cambridge and who was also the rector of Berwick; Simon Bass's home in Leicester; and the city on the Thames, London City, home of the Globe Theatre.
In the first act, it is introduced to all the main characters such as Capulets, Montague, even dramatic Hero Romeo. In
the precursor to the first act, we are talking about struggles over the
years, two aristocrats "[f]rom ancient grudge break to new mutiny".
Therefore,
we talk about one of the central disputes: that the two familes are
fighting each other. That central conflict enhances the concept of being
hostage against destiny which leads to both Romeo and Juliet's death.
In the first scene, it introduces the characterization of a character centered on Romeo's painful rash emotional heart. In
the second and third scenes of the first act, we were introduced to the
heroine Juliet and gave hints on Juliet about another dispute that
might be involved in Paris.
In
the last scene of the act, the hero and the heroine meet under intense
conditions, show the emergence of character-to-fate confrontation, and
show the conflict of character against character as seen from Tybalt's
anger and insult feeling Capulet's ball.
As
all of these introduce and serve to raise a conflict, we
confirm that the purpose of Shakespeare obviously uses the first act as
an exhibition.
A comedy has humor in it and usually ends happily. A tragedy usually ends up sad.
