Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.

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The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

January 1, 2009

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Cast (23)

Jack Sheppard

Daniel Defoe

Applebee & Harlequin

Elizabeth Lyon & Lady Credit

Duverger

Devereux & Stockjobber

Carpenter #1 & Stockjobber

Carpenter #2 & Stockjobber

Apprentice

Jack Ketch, the Executioner

Mrs. Sheppard

Soldier #1

Soldier #2

Priest

Master Wood & Rummer

Page the Butcher

Sykes alias Hell & Fury

Hack Journalist

Drinker in Tavern

Masked Reveller & Stockjobber

Sir James Thornhill

Masked Lady #1

Masked Lady #2

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