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Podcast: Beyond Shakespeare
Episode: Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 2, Scenes 2 to 5)
Description: Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 2, Scenes 2 to 5)Jack Straw is not a long play, but that won't stop us going into ridiculous amounts of detail about it. The rest of Act 2, following the goose scene, is a blur of incident as the rebellion sparks off into violence following a failed parley on the banks of the river Thames. The scenes are illustrated via a rough cut of our soon to be released full cast audio adaptation - which languishes in the edit as we post this.The rough cut of Act 2 scenes 2 to 5 to T...