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Podcast: Beyond Shakespeare
Episode: Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 3, Scene 1)
Description: Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 3, Scene 1)
Note: The precise scene division of Act Three is debatable, this episode goes up to the general exit of the king and the rebels after the parley.
Jack Straw is not a long play, but that won't stop us going into ridiculous amounts of detail about it. The start of Act 3 sees our heroes meet for the first time - with the king giving in to their demands and the diminishing of the rebel forces. The scenes are illustrated via a rough cut of our soon to be...