9780713668131-071366813X-The Roaring Girl (New Mermaids)

The Roaring Girl (New Mermaids)

ISBN-13: 9780713668131
ISBN-10: 071366813X
Edition: 2nd
Author: Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Cook
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Format: Paperback 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780713668131
ISBN-10: 071366813X
Edition: 2nd
Author: Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Cook
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Format: Paperback 192 pages

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The Roaring Girl (New Mermaids) (ISBN-13: 9780713668131 and ISBN-10: 071366813X), written by authors Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Cook, was published by Methuen Drama in 2009. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Roaring Girl (New Mermaids) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 King James's England. An appendix helps the modern reader to
appreciate the canting terms used by the low-life characters.

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