Destination Doomsday: Desires for Change and Changeable Desires in The Roaring Girl

Kermode, Lloyd Edward

doi:10.1111/j.1475-6757.1997.tb01113.x

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“…This new order may still be a male-ruled one, and it may even require women to stay on one side of the bed, but it is an ordered society where the essence of each citizen is understood and respected'. 17 Perhaps most metatextual of all, Jo Miller argues that 'By making us self-conscious about our own participation in the play's economy of exploitation, Moll Cutpurse invites us to reevaluate our responses to her and to understand better the freedom and nobility of the tomboy figure on the Renaissance stage who ignores and disrupts her society's rigid constraint of women's subjectivity'. 18 My thoughts on Moll are most aligned with Heather Hirschfeld, however.…”

Section: The Roaring Girl In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

'Untruss a Point' - Interiority, Sword Combat, and Gender in The Roaring Girl

Carter

2017

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This article discusses the critical apparatus surrounding Dekker and Middleton’s well-known play The Roaring Girl. While previous discussions of the text have focused mostly on Moll’s cross-dressing, I instead look at Moll’s sword skills to show how the lascivious behaviour of London’s men produces her gender performance, which seems unruly by early modern standards. I also examine other rituals of gender construction that texture previous analyses of Moll.

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Section: The Roaring Girl In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%