Characters
- Widge: an orphan who does not know his real name. Widge's previous master, Dr. Timothy Bright, taught him charactery, a shorthand language, to steal other preachers' sermons. His current master wants to use Widge's shorthand to acquire Shakespeare's Hamlet, which has not been reprinted.
- Alexander 'Sander' Cooke: Widge's closest friend when he starts his acting career at the Globe Theatre
- Julia 'Julian' Cogan: Widge's second closest friend. The other players discover at the end that she poses as a boy to be allowed on stage.
- William 'Will' Shakespeare: The playwright of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the ghost in Hamlet.
- Simon 'Falconer' Bass: Widge's second master who wants him to steal Hamlet. Bass disguises himself to be a messenger, Falconer. At the end, Falconer reveals that he is Simon Bass, as he dies.
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