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Podcast: Beyond Shakespeare
Episode: Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 3, Scene 3)
Description: Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 3, Scene 3)
Note: The precise scene division of Act Three is debatable, this episode goes from the general re-entrance of the king and the rebels after the mini scene with the Queen Mother.
Jack Straw is not a long play, but that won't stop us going into ridiculous amounts of detail about it. This is the beginning of the end. Farewell Jack... this parley does not go well. And there's some business with a sword... which we need to sit down and think about for a bit. And the Lord...