As both Jack and Voth are drawn into corruption and conspiracy, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined-and only a miracle will save them both.Īn imaginative retelling of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, Confessions of the Fox blends high-spirited adventure, subversive history, and provocative wit to animate forgotten histories and the extraordinary characters hidden within.įor all Academic Publicity and Academic Events, please refer to this Summary.
But he’s not the only one who wants Jack’s story-and some people will do whatever it takes to get it.
Voth works feverishly day and night to authenticate the manuscript. At last, P becomes Jack Sheppard, one of the most notorious-and most wanted-thieves in history.īack in the present, Dr. Bess brings P into the London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with London’s newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of an oncoming plague abound. Sold into servitude at twelve, P struggles for years with their desire to live as “Jack.” When P falls dizzyingly in love with Bess, a sex worker looking for freedom of her own, P begins to imagine a different life. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox.ĭated 1724, the manuscript tells the story of an orphan named P. No one knows Jack’s true story-his confessions have never been found. In the present day, our recently-jilted transmale narrator, Professor Voth, finds refuge in his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. Set in the 18th-century London underworld and a 21st-century Northeastern university campus, this bawdy, genre-bending, history-spanning novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation.
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