The Shakespeare Stealer Ch. 1-4

I do not know that much about Shakespeare, all I really know is that he was a playwright, and he had left for London because he was inspired by London's new theaters. Those are the two main things that I know about Shakespeare. The Chapters 1-4 were very interesting. At first I was a little confused with the beginning of the novel where he was talking about where he lived and who he was. From there after it was pretty straight forward. It was sort of weird that his new dad just sold him like that. You think he'd put up a fight or something but he just let him go with that stranger. The Stranger in the cloak seemed to be short tempered but when Widge awoken to the meal and was summoned to the room, he turned out to be fairly nice when had sleep and told Widge that his new masters name is Simon Bass.