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The Roaring Girl
About this book
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.
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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Information
Like
other
theatres,
the
Fortune
also
offered
rich
pickings
for
cutpurses.
In
V.i.269–70
Moll
identifies
one
of
the
cutpurses
she
encounters
as
one
she
once
‘took
.
.
.
i’the
twopenny
gallery
at
the
Fortune’:
the
fact
that
the
historical
Moll
Frith
is
known
to
have
frequented
this
theatre
confirms
the
underworld
link.
Her
fictional
representation
on
stage
exists
to
chastise
the
likes
of
her
historical
self.
A
trapdoor
was
a
standard
part
of
Elizabethan
stage
design,
and
the
presence
of
a
character
named
Trapdoor
seems
to
require
the
use
of
such
a
stage
property.
Trapdoor’s
appearance
from
and
dis-
appearance
into
his
namesake
–
an
opening
in
the
stage
into
the
below-stage
area
known
as
‘hell’
–
would
have
accentuated
the
in-
fernal
atmosphere
he
carries
with
him.
34
In
the
Fortune
Theatre
xxiv
INTRODUCTION
34
Chambers,
II,
528
London
and
the
northern
suburbs
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Further Reading
- THE ROARING GIRL
- Appendix: Cant and Canting