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The Roaring Girl (Paperback, Critical edition)
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The Roaring Girl (Paperback, Critical edition)
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This Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton and Thomas
Dekker's The Roaring Girl is based on the text from English
Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. It is accompanied by
generous explanatory annotations, five illustrations, and a
detailed introduction. "Contexts" is thematically arranged to
include almost all known documents from the period concerning Mary
Frith (aka Moll Cutpurse), among them records of her court
appearances, letters recounting the same, and her last will. Also
reprinted are significant passages from her purported 1662
"autobiography," The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith. While of
dubious veracity, the "autobiography" is useful for comparing the
play's portrayal of Moll with later developments in Moll Cutpurse
lore, which the Norton Critical Edition traces through the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Perhaps most engaging for
classroom discussion are substantial excerpts from the 1620
cross-dressing pamphlets-Hic Mulier; or, The Man-Woman and Haec
Vir; or, The Womanish Man-which appear in annotated,
modern-spelling versions. Together they give insight into how
gender-bending trends in clothing, similar to those practiced by
Moll, were understood in the early seventeenth century. A related
passage from A Sermon of Apparel adds another perspective on
cross-dressing practices. Fourteen critical essays chart the
development of scholarly interest in The Roaring Girl, from the
first half of the twentieth century, when the play received only
passing reference, through the work on city comedy in the 1970s and
1980s, to the explosion of analyses in the late 1980s and 1990s,
when the play became a major focus for early modern gender studies.
The more recent critical essays move beyond a strict focus on
gender and cross-dressing to explore The Roaring Girl's depiction
of other aspects of early modern London, including consumer culture
and the contemporary fascination with the language of the criminal
underworld. Contributors include, among others, T. S. Eliot,
Alexander Leggatt, Mary Beth Rose, Jonathan Dollimore, Jean E.
Howard, and Jonathan Gil Harris. A Selected Bibliography is also
included.
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