The Roaring Girl

ISBN-13: 9781554812134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Thomas Middleton; Thomas Dekker; Kelly Stage

Spis treści

• Introduction
• The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse
• In Context
• A. On Mary Frith’s Life
• 1. from the Consistory Court of London Correction Book, 27 January 1611/12
• 2. The Last Will and Testament of Mary Markham, Alias Mary Frith (1659)
• B. On Theater, Gender, and Cross-Dressing
  • 1. from Stephen Gosson, Plays Confuted in Five Actions, Proving that they are not to be suffered in a Christian Commonweal (1582)
  • 2. from anonymous, The Life of Long Meg of Westminster, containing the mad merry pranks she played in her lifetime, not only in performing sundry quarrels with diverse ruffians about London: but also how valiantly she behaved herself in wars of Boulogne (1620, revised 1635)
  • 3. from anonymous, Hic Mulier: or, The Man-Woman: Being a Medicine to Cure the Coltish Disease of the Staggers in the Masculine-Feminines of our Time (1620)
  • 4. anonymous, Haec-Vir: or, The Womanish-Man (1620)
  • C. On Criminals
    • 1. from Thomas Harman, A Caveat for Common Cursitors, Vulgarly Called Vagabonds (1566, revised 1567/68)
    • 2. from Thomas Dekker, The Bellman of London Bringing to Light the Most Notorious Villainies That Are Now Practised in the Kingdom (1608)
    • D. On Tobacco
      • 1. from anonymous, “A Merry Progress to London to see Fashions, by a young Country Gallant, that had more Money than Wit” (1615)
      • 2. from King James I, A Counterblast to Tobacco (1604)
      • Further Reading