The plebeians revise the uprising: what the actors made of Shakespeare's Jack Cade - or, laughing with the English radical tradition

Stephen Longstaffe

The plebeians revise the uprising: what the actors made of Shakespeare's Jack Cade - or, laughing with the English radical tradition

Stephen Longstaffe

University of Cumbria

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In hungry, paranoid, brutal, repressed 1590s London you would have been able to go to the theatre and see a play interrupting its 'main' action - the contention between Lancaster and York for the English crown during the War of the Roses - with a nasty, brutish, and short interlude. The Jack Cade rising of 1450, on the London stage of the 1590s, begins with two workmen commenting on the rising.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Shakespeare and the politics of commoners: digesting the new social history
Editors	Chris Fitter
Place of Publication	Oxford, UK
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	124-145
ISBN (Print)	9780198806899
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2017

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Longstaffe, S. (2017). The plebeians revise the uprising: what the actors made of Shakespeare's Jack Cade - or, laughing with the English radical tradition. In C. Fitter (Ed.), Shakespeare and the politics of commoners: digesting the new social history (pp. 124-145). Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shakespeare-and-the-politics-of-commoners-9780198806899

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The plebeians revise the uprising: what the actors made of Shakespeare's Jack Cade - or, laughing with the English radical tradition. / Longstaffe, Stephen.
Shakespeare and the politics of commoners: digesting the new social history. ed. / Chris Fitter. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. p. 124-145.

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