![]() ![]() What Brecht’s working signals is an interest in Marxism and a continuing freedom in matters of sex and sexuality. While this tale of incompetent thievery, opportune escapism and possible avoidance of execution was well-known into Victorian times, more recently Jack re-emerged in Brecht’s ‘The Threepenny Opera’ derived from John Gay’s ‘The Beggar’s Opera’. Concerning Jack Sheppard, the jail-breaker 1701-1724, I would find most relevant ‘Unfit for Modest Ears’ by Roger Thompson (1979), ‘Mother Clap’s Molly House’ by Rictor Norton (1992) and other less sizable but more specialised publications especially in The Journal of Homosexuality. I consider myself reasonably well-read in many histories and that includes gay history. ![]()
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