Stephen Longstaffe discusses “The Plebeians Revise the Uprising: What the Actors Made of Shakespeare’s Jack Cade”. Longstaffe is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cumbria, UK. This talk was included in the session titled, “Class Rebellion in Henry VI Part Two”.

Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics

The Plebeians Revise the Uprising: What the Actors Made of Shakespeare’s Jack Cade

The “new social history” has exploded the myth that Shakespeare’s society comprised a culture of obedience. Repositioning his works in the popular politics of his period, social historians and literary critics reassess Shakespeare’s presentation of power and authority.

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Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics