Roaring Girl

Name: Roaring Girl
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ISBN: 9780713668131

ISBN-10: 071366813X

ISBN-13: 9780713668131

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Middleton;T T, Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Cook, Thomas Middleton

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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…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 9/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English