Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719016301
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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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.
Author: Moll Cutpurse
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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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
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460405013
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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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.
Author: Kelly J. Stage
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496201817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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"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"--
Author: Thomas Dekker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409961147
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The Roaring Girl; or, Moll Cutpurse is a Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker ca. 1607-10. The title page of the first edition states that the play was performed at the Fortune Theatre by Prince Henry's Men, the troupe known in the previous reign as the Admiral's Men. The title page also attributes the authorship of the play to "T. Middleton and T. Dekkar," and contains an "Epistle to the Comic Play-Readers" signed by "Thomas Middleton." The Epistle is noteworthy for its indication that Middleton, atypically for dramatists of his era, composed his plays for readers as well as theatre audiences.
Author: Charles Whibley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: Ellen Galford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780932379047
Category : Female offenders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"This delightful lesbian romp set in Elizabethan England captures the adventures of Moll Cutpurse, a swashbuckling heroine, upholder of the right of women, as she pits her wits against Puritans and tricksters, travels with the gypsies, rescues a near-victim of the anti-witchcraft hysteria, and cheats the wealthy out of their ill-gotten gains - with help from her lifelong friend and lover, Bridget, the apothecary"--P [4] of cover.
Author: Theodora A. Jankowski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812235524
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Noting that though Christian thought has consistently held virginity to be purer than married life, a virgin woman has always queer been in social terms, Jankowsky (English, Washington State U.) explores the tensions behind the many representations of virgin women in English stage plays from 1590 to about 1670 and how those representations can be considered queer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Stephen Orgel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521568425
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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A provocative exploration of gender in the Renaissance, from theatrical cross-dressing to cultural subversion.
Author: THOMAS. MIDDLETON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033071878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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