![]() ![]() As Sheppard arrives and is prepared for hanging, the crowd shouts that he should be freed, and the politicians executed instead. ![]() It describes, in a style appropriate to the period in which it is set (late 1700’s England) the execution of renowned thief and escape artist Jack Sheppard. ![]() Voth describes events in present-day America - his discovery of the Sheppard manuscript, his discovery of the different layers of meaning it contains, and his impulsive decision to escape his life and work, taking the manuscript with him.įollowing the foreward, there is something of another prologue, apparently the first chapter of the manuscript. The narrative begins with what is identified as an “Editor’s Foreward,” but which is in fact something of a prologue. Voth, a trans man and scholar who discovered the manuscript telling Sheppard’s story analyzed it and who contemplates his own life and experiences within the context of what he finds in it. The first is associated with the story of real-life thief and escape artist Jack Sheppard the second, developed through a series of footnotes and other interjections, is associated with the story of Dr. One World, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Rosenberg, Jordy. ![]()
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