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The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker

Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre by Oxford University

Nov 13, 200948:15Education

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.

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The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker is an episode from Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre by Oxford University. Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of to...

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