ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how a particular setting—in this case, the city of London itself—can alter the ways in which The Roaring Girl embraces the trope of the cross-dressing heroine. Within the Renaissance literary imagination, Moll’s mirth, her skill in fighting, her innate sense of nobility, and her desire to see innocent love prevail make her an ideal stand-in for the Amazon, the mythical warrior woman popularized in the writings of Spenser and Sidney.
