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* LowerClassLout: The peasants' rebellion is fairly demonised, being depicted as a bunch of lowlives whose leader Jack Cade is a lying WrongfulHeirToTheThrone who [[PersecutedIntellectual has people executed for knowing how to read and write]] and plans to carry out DroitDuSeigneur on the young women of the realm. That said, the play states that Cade is an agent in the pay of the Duke of York and not a man of the common people.

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* LowerClassLout: The peasants' rebellion is fairly demonised, being depicted as a bunch of lowlives whose leader Jack Cade is a lying WrongfulHeirToTheThrone TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone who [[PersecutedIntellectual [[PersecutedIntellectuals has people executed for knowing how to read and write]] and plans to carry out DroitDuSeigneur on the young women of the realm. That said, the play states that Cade is an agent in the pay of the Duke of York and not only pretending to be a man true hero of the common people.
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* LowerClassLout: The peasants' rebellion is fairly demonised, being depicted as a bunch of lowlives whose leader Jack Cade is a lying WrongfulHeirToTheThrone who [[PersecutedIntellectual has people executed for knowing how to read and write]] and plans to carry out DroitDuSeigneur on the young women of the realm. That said, the play states that Cade is an agent in the pay of the Duke of York and not a man of the common people.

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* PersecutedIntellectuals: Dick TheButcher's line "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" can be interpreted as a standard EvilLawyerJoke; however, the [[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/17/nyregion/l-kill-the-lawyers-a-line-misinterpreted-599990.html implication]] is that without lawyers, there would be nobody who knows any law to get in the way of Jack Cade's autocratic rule.

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Dick TheButcher's line "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" can be interpreted as a standard EvilLawyerJoke; however, the [[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/17/nyregion/l-kill-the-lawyers-a-line-misinterpreted-599990.html implication]] is that without lawyers, there would be nobody who knows any law to get in the way of Jack Cade's autocratic rule. rule.
** The rebels also hang a clerk "with his pen and ink-horn about his neck" for being able to read and write.

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