The Roaring Girl

Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719016301
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Ward was in a New York banking family, brother of Julia Ward Howe, married into the Astor family, was in the Gold Rush, involved in the social life of New York and London, and was an epicure. He was also a very powerful lobbying influence on Congress and an author. His family connections and friends were prominent in many fields.

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies

Author: Thomas Dekker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192658557
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

ROARING GIRL

Author: THOMAS. MIDDLETON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033071878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters

Author: Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748655913
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. And she demonstrates that girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies. This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'.

Producing Early Modern London

Author: Kelly J. Stage
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496201817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
"Producing Early Modern London analyzes theater's use of city spaces and places, showing how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays"--

The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith

Author: Moll Cutpurse
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
The little known autobiography by the most famous transvestite of the 17th century, published in 1662, three years after her death, and barely tampered with since. Moll Cutpurse ruled the London underworld for decades, dealing in stolen goods and both male and female prostitutes. She is most familiar to modern readers as the heroine of Middleton and Dekker's play The Roaring Girl. A facsimile of the original edition follows a well annotated version in modern type and spelling. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid

Author: Glenn Stout
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358067774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 395

Book Description
"A thrilling Jazz Age chronicle of America's first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore"--

The Roaring

Author: Tasi Tayler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735900575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
1925 New York City . . . where alcohol is illegal and speakeasies are all the rage. The Roaring follows the lives of six extremely wealthy, impeccably charming, and remarkably special Manhattan adolescents. Focusing in on the daughter of the Don of the most powerful mafia family in New York, Roxy Elliott. The novel takes you back into the Jazz age and into the speakeasies where wild parties were held as police turned a blind eye. It brings you center stage to the ?glitz and glamour, murder and scandal, and love and heartbreak they endure . . . all while living in the ever so daring roaring 20s. This isn't just one story. There is no beginning middle and end, but rather a collection (a myriad, really) of many alluring stories, all pertaining to this specific special six between 1925 and 1926 . . .

The Roaring Girl

Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460405013
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The titular “Roaring Girl” of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s comedy is Moll Cutpurse, a fictionalized version of Mary Frith, who attained legendary status in London by flouting gendered dress conventions, illegally performing onstage, and engaging in all manner of transgressive behavior from smoking and swearing to stealing. In the course of The Roaring Girl’s lively and complex plot of seduction and clever ruses, Moll shares her views on gender and sexuality, defends her honor in a duel, and demonstrates her knowledge of London’s criminal underworld. This edition of the play offers an informative introduction, thorough annotation, and a substantial selection of contextual materials from the period.

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies

Author: Thomas Dekker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199540101
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
The Oxford English Drama series offers plays from the 16th to the early 20th centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. Each text is freshly edited using modern spelling.