Cant, Costume, and Cutpurses: Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl

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Let's head into the Fortune Theatre for a performance of one of the most innovative and deceptively complex comedies of the English Renaissance.  The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse explores the fluidity of social identity by the protagonist's use of clothing and language.

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