The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse

Dekker, Thomas and Middleton, Thomas

The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse

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Authors: Dekker, Thomas and Middleton, Thomas

Date of publication: 1610

Type: Text

Language(s): English

OTA identifier: ota:3006

Collection(s): Core Collection

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The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse My case is alter'd , I must work for my living. Dramatis Personæ SIR ALEXANDER Wengrave , and NEATFOOT his man SIR ADAM Appleton SIR DAVY Dapper SIR BEAUTEOUS Ganymede [SIR THOMAS Long] LORD NOLAND Young [SEBASTIAN] Wengrave JACK Dapper, [son to Sir Davy,] and GULL his page GOSHAWK GREENWIT LAXTON TILTYARD [a feather-seller] [MISTRESS TILTYARD] OPENWORK [a sempster ] [MISTRESS Rosamond OPENWORK] [ Hippocrates ] GALLIPOT [an apothecary] [MISTRESS Prudence GALLIPOT] MOLL, the Roaring Girl [Ralph] TRAPDOOR [ TEARCAT ] SIR GUY Fitzallard MARY Fitzallard, his daughter CURTILAX , a sergeant, and HANGER , his yeoman MINISTRI [COACHMAN] [PORTER] [TAILOR] [Gentlemen] [CUTPURSES] [ FELLOW ] To the Comic Play-Readers, Venery and Laughter The fashion of play-making I can properly compare to nothing so naturally as the alteration in apparel: for in the time of the great crop-doublet , your huge bombasted plays, quilted with mighty words to lean purposes, was only . . .