The Roaring Girl Paperback / softback
by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton
Edited by Elizabeth Cook
Part of the New Mermaids series
Paperback / softback
Description
This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was taken up for public misconduct.
Middleton and Dekker's 'roaring girl' may outrage her society with her pipe, bluster and swagger, but she turns out to be the moral centre of the play.
Her code of honour leads her to call the bluff on rogues and conspicuous consumers, to thrash a hypocritical gallant in a duel, and to act as go-between for the young lovers thwarted by parental tyranny.
This wry dramatisation of female deviancy exposing male ineffectuality is as much to the point today as it was in King James's England.
An appendix helps the modern reader to appreciate the canting terms used by the low-life characters.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/08/2003
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- ISBN:9780713668131
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Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/08/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780713668131
