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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Roaring Girl Information
1,949 words, approx. 7 pages
 The Roaring Girl is a Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker ca. 1607-10. The play was first published in quarto in 1611, printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Thomas Archer. The title page of the first edition... 
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 The Village Voice The Roaring Girle
03/10/2004: 469 words, approx. 2 pages Alice Tuan's Jacobean retread goes out with nary a whimper THE ROARING GIRLE By Alice Tuan Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue 212.868.4444 A ROARING BORE The set of The Roaring Girle, a dreadfully freewheeling adaptation of the Jacobean play... summary from source:
Shakespeare Bulletin The Roaring Girle.(Theater Review)
09/22/2004: 1,253 words, approx. 4 pages The Roaring Girle Presented by the Foundry Theatre, New York, New York, February 20-March 21, 2004. Adapted by Alice Tuan and Melanie Joseph. Written by Alice Tuan. Produced by Bonnie Metzgar. Directed by Melanie Joseph. Set by Louisa Thompson. Costumes by Doey...
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mary Beth Rose
10,090 words, approx. 34 pages
In the essay below, Rose argues that The Roaring Girl, with its depiction of the cross-dressing Moll Frith, presents “an image of Jacobean society as unable to absorb one of its most vital and complex creations into the existing social and sexual hierarchies.”
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Critical Essay by Viviana Comensoli
7,298 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Comensoli contends that the three plots of The Roaring Girl together “convey the concern at the heart of the play with the degeneration of marriage and the family, a tension sustained in the antithesis between the household (consistently portrayed as the seat of spiritual and emotional stasis and confinement) and the city (the hub of multifariousness and freedom).”
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Critical Essay by Jane Baston
6,528 words, approx. 22 pages
In this essay, Baston insists that “Moll's defiance is reinvented in The Roaring Girl in order to be contained, enervated, and eventually incorporated into the prevailing social apparatus.”
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