Roaring Girl

This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a
real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who
probably was among the first audiences of ''her'' play before she was
taken up for public misconduct. Middleton and Dekker''s ''roaring girl''
may outrage her society with her pipe, bluster and swagger, but she
turns out to be the moral centre of the play. Her code of honour l...