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Taking place in the elizabethanera england, it recounts the story of widge, an orphan whose master sends him to steal hamlet from the lord chamberlains men. Fourteenyearold widge is an orphan living in a small village in elizabethan england read more. In 1601, a yorkshire orphan skilled in shorthand and in lying is hired by a mysterious stranger to steal the script of hamlet. But when he starts to make friends with the crew, widge realiz. Shakespeares spy is the third and apparently the last book in blackwoods shakespeare stealer series.
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