The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse

Author(s): Dekker, Thomas; Middleton, Thomas
Note: Roughly, Dekker authored scenes 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, and 10; Middleton, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 11 (Wiggins, vol. 6, p. 124).
Date of composition:
  • 1611
Date of first performance: 1611
Date of first publication: 1611
Genre (Annals): Comedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1633 (Vol. 6)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1611 quarto transcript
  • 1611 quarto Okes, Nicholas Archer, Thomas Printed title: The Roaring Girle. OR Moll Cut-Purse single-play print

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Early Performances

  • Company: Prince Henry's Men Venue: The Curtain playhouse Date: 1611
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 6: 1609-1616. 2015.

    Modern editions

    • Kahn, Coppélia, ed. The Roaring Girl. In: Taylor, Gary; Lavagnino, John, ed. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 721–778
    • Barker, Simon; Hinds, Hillary, ed. The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama. London: Routledge, 2003.
    • Bevington, David; Engle, Lars; Eisaman Maus, Katharine; Rasmussen, Eric, ed. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
    • Knowles, James; Giddens, Eugene, ed. The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford English Drama. (‘Roaring 225-309’).
    • Cook, Elizabeth, ed. The Roaring Girl. Dekker, Thomas. London: A & C Black, 1997. New Mermaids.
    • Mulholland, Paul, ed. The Roaring Girl. Dekker, Thomas. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. The Revels Plays.
    • Gomme, Andor, ed. The Roaring Girl. Dekker, Thomas. London: E. Benn, 1976. New Mermaids.
    • Fraser, Russell A.; Rabkin, Norman, ed. Drama of the English Renaissance II: The Stuart Period. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1976.
    • Bowers, Fredson, ed. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958, pp. 1–112.

    Select Bibliography: Translations

    • FR:
      • Dekker, Thomas; Middleton, Thomas. "L’Enragée". Tra. Borias, George. Ed. Cottegnies, Line; Laroque, François; Maguin, Jean-Marie. Théâtre élisabéthain. Paris: Gallimard, 2009. Vol. 2.

    Select Bibliography: Criticism

    • Clary, Christopher. "Moll's queer anatomy: 'The Roaring Girl' and queer generation". Ed. Loomis, Catherine; Ray, Sid. Shaping Shakespeare for perfomance: the bear stage. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016, p. 91-102.
    • Real, Julian. "The Roaring Girl' and Astraea: in search of a lost allegory". Parergon. 2016, vol. 1, 33, p. 131-58.
    • Herman, Peter C. "Opening Up 'The Roaring Girl' and the Woman Question with EEBO". Ed. Hackel, Heidi Brayman; Moulton, Ian Frederick. Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2015, p. 133-144.
    • Bromley, James M. "Quilted with mighty words to lean purpose': clothing and queer style in 'The Roaring Girl'". Renaissance Drama. 2015, vol. 2, 43, p. 143-72.
    • Paul, Ryan Singh. "The power of ignorance and 'The Roaring Girl'". English Literary Renaissance. 2013, vol. 3, 43, p. 514-40.
    • Kim, Jaecheol. "Suburbs, Supplementarity, and Transvestism in 'The Roaring Girl'". Feminist Studies in English Literature. 2011, vol. 3, 19, p. 45-68.
    • Votava, Jennie. "The voice that will drown all the city': un-gendering noise in 'The Roaring Girl'". Renaissance Drama. 2011, 39, p. 69-65.
    • Stage, Kelly J. "'The Roaring Girl''s London spaces". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 2009, vol. 2, 49, p. 417-36.
    • Rose, Mary Beth. "Women in Men's Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in 'The Roaring Girl'". Ed. Schoenberg, Thomas J.; Trudeau, Lawrence J.. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 149. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2008, p. 17-28.
    • Tomasian, Alicia. "Moll's law: 'The Roaring Girl', Mary Frith, and corrupt justice from the streets to the Star Chamber". Ben Jonson Journal. 2008, vol. 2, 15, p. 205-31.
    • McManus, Clare. "'The Roaring Girl' and the London underworld". Ed. Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr; Cheney, Patrick; Hadfield, Andrew. Early modern English drama: a critical companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 213-24.
    • Reynolds, Bryan; Segal, Janna. "The Reckoning of Moll Cutpurse: Transversal Reimaginings of 'The Roaring Girl'". Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 27-63.
    • Taylor, Miles. "'Teach Me This Pedlar's French': The Allure of Cant in 'The Roaring Girl' and Dekker's Rogue Pamphlets". Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme. 2005, vol. 4, 29, p. 107-24.
    • Eastwood, Adrienne L. "Controversy and the single woman in 'The Maid's Tragedy' and 'The Roaring Girl'". Rocky Mountain E-Review. 2004, vol. 2, 58, .
    • Cottegnies, Line. "Lecture de 'The Roaring Girl' (1611) de Thomas Dekker et Thomas Middleton: Moll Cutpurse ou le principe du théâtre". Etudes Epistémè. 2002, 2, p. 2-23.
    • Forman, Valerie. "Marked angels: counterfeits, commodities, and 'The Roaring Girl'". Renaissance Quarterly. 2001, vol. 5, 54, p. 1531-60.
    • Damont, Marie. "Fonction sémiotique du détail vestimentaire et représentation de l'hermaphrodite dans 'The Roaring Girl' de Middleton et Dekker". Imaginaires. 2001, 7, p. 27-39.
    • Baston, Jane. "Rehabilitating Moll's subversion in 'The Roaring Girl'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 1997, vol. 2, 37, p. 317-35.
    • Longo, Marinella Rocca. "L'eros negato: Ambiguità sessuale in 'The Roaring Girl'". Ed. Papetti, Viola; Visconti, Laura. Le forme del teatro, V: Eros e commedia sulla scena inglese dalle origini al primo Seicento; VI: Eros e commedia sulla scena inglese dal tardo Seicento al Novecento. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1997, p. 235-54.
    • Kermode, Lloyd Edward. "Destination Doomsday: desires for change and changeable desires in 'The Roaring Girl'". English Literary Renaissance. 1997, vol. 3, 27, p. 421-42.
    • Rowan, Nicole. "Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Middleton and Dekker's Comedy 'The Roaring Girl' (1611)". Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies/Revue Africaine d'Etudes Anglaises. 1995, 6, p. 67-78.
    • Krantz, Susan E. "The sexual identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton's 'The Roaring Girl' and in London". Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et réforme. 1995, vol. 1, 31, p. 5-20.
    • Mikalachki, Jod. "Gender, cant, and cross-talking in 'The Roaring Girl'". Renaissance Drama. 1994, 25, p. 119-43.
    • Orgel, Stephen. "The Subtexts of 'The Roaring Girl'". Ed. Zimmerman, Susan. Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage. New York: Routledge, 1992, p. 12-26.
    • Howard, Jean E. "Sex and Social Conflict: The Erotics of 'The Roaring Girl'". Ed. Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage. Tra. Zimmerman, Susan. {Falta título libro}. New York: Routledge, 1992, p. 170-90.
    • Garber, Marjorie. "The Logic of the Transvestite: 'The Roaring Girl' (1608)". Ed. Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. Tra. Kastan, David Scott; Stallybrass, Peter. {Falta título libro}. New York: Routledge, 1991, p. 221-34.
    • Jacobs, Deborah. "Critical imperialism and Renaissance drama: the case of 'The Roaring Girl'". Ed. Feminism, Bakhtin, and the dialogic. Tra. Bauer, Dale M.; McKinstry, Susan Jaret. {Falta título libro}. Albany: New York Sate UP, 1991, p. 73-84.
    • Miller, Jo E. "Women and the market in 'The Roaring Girl'". Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et réforme. 1990, vol. 1, 14, p. 11-23.
    • Comensoli, Viviana. "Play-making, domestic conduct, and the multiple plot in 'The Roaring Girl'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 1987, vol. 2, 27, p. 249-66.
    • Rose, Mary Beth. "Women in men's clothing: apparel and social stability in 'The Roaring Girl'". English Literary Renaissance. 1984, 14, p. 367-91.
    • Cheney, Patrick. "Moll Cutpurse as hermaphrodite in Dekker and Middleton's 'The Roaring Girl'". Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et réforme. 1983, 7, p. 120-34.
    • Mulholland, P. A. "The date of 'The Roaring Girl'". Review of English Studies. 1977, 28, p. 18-31.
    • Dowling, Margaret. "A Note on Moll Cutpurse---'The Roaring Girl'". Review of English Studies. 1934, 10, p. 67-71.

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