The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton

Descriere The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton

\n \nThis Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a \nreal-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who \nprobably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was \ntaken up for public misconduct. Middleton and Dekker's 'roaring girl' \nmay outrage her society with her pipe, bluster and swagger, but she \nturns out to be the moral centre of the play. Her code of honour leads \nher to call the bluff on rogues and conspicuous consumers, to thrash a \nhypocritical gallant in a duel, and to act as go-between for the young \nlovers thwarted by parental tyranny. This wry dramatisation of female \ndeviancy exposing male ineffectuality is as much to the point today as \nit was in King James's England. An appendix helps the modern reader to \nappreciate the canting terms used by the low-life characters.\n

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9780713668131

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