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Item Details
Title:
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THE ROARING GIRL
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By: |
Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Cook (Editor) |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£9.99 |
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£8.74 |
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£1.25 |
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ISBN 10: |
071366813X |
ISBN 13: |
9780713668131 |
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Reprinting. This item may be subject to delays or cancellation.
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Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
Pub. date: |
29 August, 2003 |
Series: |
New Mermaids |
Pages: |
192 |
Description: |
Another example of a woman of the London underworld, Moll Cutpurse, who is used by the son of a wealthy but disapproving father to advance his courtship to another. This re-edited text is part of a series presenting modern-spelling editions of important English plays. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Illustrations: |
c 5 photographs/line drawings |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
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