The Roaring Girl: New Mermaids

Author: Dekker, Thomas,Middleton, Thomas,Elizabeth Cook
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Category: Plays, Playscripts
Book Format: Paperback

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.

About Thomas Dekker
Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Thomas Dekker (1570-1632) was an English dramatist.

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SKU BK-9780713668131
Barcode # 9780713668131
Brand A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Artist / Author Dekker, Thomas, Middleton, Thomas, Elizabeth Cook
Shipping Weight 0.1000kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.400m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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