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The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker

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Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy genders has fun with some very modern ideas about sexuality, identity and whether we are what we wear.

Date Published: 13 November 2009
Contributors:
Emma Smith
In Collection(s): Shakespeare’s Contemporary dramatists, Thomas Middleton, Feminist Approaches to Literature
Keywords:
english, language, jacobean, elizabethan, theatre, renaissance, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker by Emma Smith at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/roaring-girl-thomas-middleton-thomas-dekker. Published on 13 November 2009. Accessed on 02 October 2025.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/) by Emma Smith, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).