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The playwrights made their heroine a single woman and though dressed in men's clothes she was chaste.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
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She gained fame in 1610 when John Day wrote a play, The Madde Pranckes of Mery Mall of the Bankside. A second play in 1611, by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, celebrated her under the title The Roaring Girl.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
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