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The Roaring Boy: Contested Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 43-54
- 10.1353/mml.2013.0000
- Article
- Additional Information
The satirical representation of the roaring boy shows how men of a variety of social stations aped the belligerent, courtly, military styles of the upper class. And this stock figure highlights how the demimonde of early modern London, a site where social class is harder to determine with precision, was represented on stage.