The Roaring Girl

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Title page of Thomas Middleton's play The Roaring Girle

The Roaring Girl

play by Middleton

Also known as: “The Roaring Girle”

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Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl (1604–10?, with Dekker; published 1611) depicts events in the life of the notorious criminal Moll Frith (Moll Cutpurse), who dressed as a man and preferred her freedom to marriage. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613?, published 1630) is an exuberant comedy that…
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The Roaring Girl (1604–10?, with Dekker; published 1611) depicts events in the life of the notorious criminal Moll Frith (Moll Cutpurse), who dressed as a man and preferred her freedom to marriage. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613?, published 1630) is an exuberant comedy that…
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English literature
Other Jacobean dramatists
His The Roaring Girl (c. 1608) and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613) are the only Jacobean comedies to rival the comprehensiveness of Bartholomew Fair, but their social attitudes are opposed to Jonson’s; the misbehavior that Jonson condemned morally as “humours” or affectation Middleton understands as…
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His The Roaring Girl (c. 1608) and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613) are the only Jacobean comedies to rival the comprehensiveness of Bartholomew Fair, but their social attitudes are opposed to Jonson’s; the misbehavior that Jonson condemned morally as “humours” or affectation Middleton understands as…
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