Thomas Greenwood’s Jack Sheppard premiered at Sadler’s Wells in the East End on the same date as Buckstone’s at the Adelphi. The last scene of Greenwood’s play has Blueskin descending from the gallows with Jack on his shoulder; the curtain falls on a tableau of the mob in uproar. Parts of Greenwood’s play were plagiarized by the publisher George Purkess; Purkess’s anonymous Jack Sheppard, a Drama in Three Acts was likely the one staged in 1845 at the City of London Theatre. This version contains Jack’s clearest survival, as Jack and Blueskin triumph over Wild’s death in the final scene. This play was shut down in 1845 due to violating the licensing ban. Buckstone was allowed to continue for decades, although in 1852 Buckstone’s playbills contained a notice explaining that the Lord Chamberlain licensed the play because “all objectionable passages are carefully expunged” (qtd. in Ellis…
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