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Article: Rehabilitating Moll's subversion in The Roaring Girl.
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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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 yeares old. "(1)
But what do we learn from this account? Certainly something about the subjugation of women at this time - ...
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