Jacobean stage play written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, published 1611
Image of Mary Frith from title page of The Roaring Girl
The Roaring Girl is a Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker c. 1607–1610.
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 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.[1]
The Roaring Girl is a fictionalized dramatization of the life of Mary Frith, known as "Moll Cutpurse", a woman who had gained a reputation as a virago in the early 17th century. (The term "roaring girl" was adapted from the slang term "roaring boy", which was applied to a young man who caroused publicly, brawled, and committed petty crimes.) She was also the subject of a lost chapbook written by John Day titled The Mad Pranks of Merry Moll of the Bankside, which was entered into the Stationers' Register on 7 August 1610.[2] Frith also appears in Nathaniel Field's Amends for Ladies, which dates from this same era of c. 1611.[3] On the basis of documents from a surviving lawsuit, the actual Mary Frith seems to have been the type of person that Middleton and Dekker depicted.[4] The real Mary Frith may have even stepped in once to play her own part as Moll in a performance of The Roaring Girl at the Fortune Theatre.[5]
^Logan and Smith, p. 52.
^The lost work by Day was probably a pamphlet, not a play; Chambers, vol. 3, p. 289.
^Chambers, vol. 3, pp. 296–297.
^Logan and Smith, p. 15.
^Dekker, Thomas; Middleton, Thomas. Cook, Elizabeth (ed.). The Roaring Girl (New Mermaids ed.). Bloomsbury. Introduction: Date, Sources, and Afterlife.
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