The Roaring Girl - (New Mermaids) 2nd Edition by Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a<br>real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who<br>probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was<br>taken up for public misconduct. Middleton and Dekker's 'roaring girl'<br>may outrage her society with her pipe, bluster and swagger, but she<br>turns out to be the moral centre of the play. Her code of honour leads<br>her to call the bluff on rogues and conspicuous consumers, to thrash a<br>hypocritical gallant in a duel, and to act as go-between for the young<br>lovers thwarted by parental tyranny. This wry dramatisation of female<br>deviancy exposing male ineffectuality is as much to the point today as<br>it was in King James's England. An appendix helps the modern reader to<br>appreciate the canting terms used by the low-life characters.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. <p/>Thomas Dekker (1570-1632) was an English dramatist.</p>
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