The Roaring Girl: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Roaring Girl, credited to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is a fictionalized dramatization of the life of Mary Frith, known as "Moll Cutpurse", a woman who had gained a reputation as a virago in the early 17th century. (The term "roaring girl" was adapted from the slang term "roaring boy", which was applied to a young man who caroused publicly, brawled, and committed petty crimes.) The play combines the exploits of the cross-dressed Moll with the amorous adventures of a trio of merchants' wives, and the forbidden romance between Sebastian Wengrave and Mary Fitzallard. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett and Wikipedia) Cast Sir Alexander Wengrave: Algy Pug Sebastian Wengrave: Nolan Fount Mary Fitzallard: Amanda Friday Sir Davy Dapper/Sir Beauteous Ganymede/Fellow/Tailor/Coachman: Ric F Sir Adam Appleton/Sir Thomas Long: David Lawrence Goshawk: David Isenhower Laxton/Second Cutpurse: Chuck Williamson Greenwit/Sergeant Curtilax: peac Ralph Trapdoor: David Nicol Mistress Openwork: Kristingj Mistress Gallipot: Arielle Lipshaw Jack Dapper: LucentBirch Gull/First Cutpurse: Tiffany Halla Colonna Mistress Tiltyard: Lucy Perry Master Openwork: mb Moll/Neatfoot/Yeoman Hanger: Elizabeth Klett Master Tiltyard/Lord Noland: Tricia G Master Gallipot/Sir Guy Fitzallard: Leonard Wilson Narrator/Tearcat: Todd

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Roaring Girl
• Author credits: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 2:54:12

Catalogue topics

• audio
• drama
• middleton
• comedy
• dekker

Track guide

1. 1 - Act 1 — 26:09
2. 2 - Act 2 — 35:43
3. 3 - Act 3 — 41:08
4. 4 - Act 4 — 32:21
5. 5 - Act 5 — 38:51

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