Title: The Last Days of Jack Sheppard
Character: Devereux & Stockjobber
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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.