The Life and Death of Jack Straw Author:Anonymous This Groundling Press edition features a new introduction, textual notes and annotations, and an appendix of additional materials related to this anonymous sixteenth-century play. The Peasants? Revolt of 1381 is one of the great watershed events in English history. "The Life and Death of Jack Straw" follows the rebels as they march on London to ... more »confront the young Richard II. Wat Tyler, Parson Ball, and Jack Straw appear, as does William Walworth, the Lord Mayor of London. This is not a reprint of an existing public domain etext, but an entirely new edition, newly modernized from the earliest existing printed copies, published in 1593 and 1604, then edited and annotated with descriptions of unfamiliar terms and notes for the modern reader.« less