The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

2009
56min

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

Storyline

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.
    Released
    January 2009
    Runtime
    56min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    English
    Production
    Chisenhale Gallery London, CCA Glasgow, The Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council of England, The Scottish Arts Council
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