Dekker, Thomas - Jane Baston (essay date 1997)
Jane Baston (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: “Rehabilitating Moll's Subversion in The Roaring Girl,” in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 37, No. 2, Spring 1997, pp. 317-35.
[In this essay, Baston insists that “Moll's defiance is reinvented in The Roaring Girl in order to be contained, enervated, and eventually incorporated into the prevailing social apparatus.”]
On 12 February 1612 in a letter to Sir Dudley Carleton, John Chamberlain included an account of the punishments of three women. Of the first two he writes: “The Lady of Shrewsberie is still in the Towre rather upon wilfulnes, then upon any great matter she is charged withall: only the King is resolute that she shall aunswer to certain interrogatories, and she is as obstinate to make none, nor to be examined. The other weeke a younge mignon of Sir Pexall Brockas did penance at Paules Crosse, whom he had entertained and abused since she was twelve years...
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