However, Sebastian has a plan to enable the match : he will pretend to be in love with Moll Cutpurse, a notorious cross-dressing thief, and his father will be so worried that he will see marriage to Mary as the preferable alternative.
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When he returns to his hotel, he is met by all the previous owners of the hand : a royal musketeer, a cutpurse, a juggler, an illusionist, a surgeon, his assistant ( who became a boxer ), and finally the chef.
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Her 2002 work " Pandora's Daughters " ( " Women Out of Bounds " in the United States ) discussed " Enterprising women " including early Venetian writer Christine de Pizan, criminal Moll Cutpurse, and Christian Cavanagh who joined the army in male disguise.
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Critics and scholars who have attempted to differentiate the shares of the two collaborators in the play have not reached a full consensus, though the general tendency has been to attribute the romantic main plot of Mary Fitz-Allard largely to Dekker, and the Moll Cutpurse subplot mainly to Middleton.
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Jesse has trained at the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training and performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, in Romeo & Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra, Love's Labours Lost, Three Sisters directed by Martha Henry, and was featured as Ezekiel Edgeworth the stealthy cutpurse in Bartholomew Fair.
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If etymological wishes were horses, we could ride back to the heyday of Shakespeare's " cutpurse rascals " and beyond to investigate for ourselves; if a snip turned out to mean literally " something stolen, " it would be a gratifyingly vivid, history-encapsulating bit of slang.
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Her debut medieval mystery with protagonists Crispin Guest, a disgraced knight turned detective, along with his cutpurse servant Jack Tucker, received a nomination for the Macavity Award ( Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award ) and the Shamus Award for Best First Mystery, the first medieval mystery to be nominated for this PI award given by the Private Eye Writers of America.
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The failures of the anti-Catholic " Whore of Babylon " and tragicomic " If This Be Not . . . " have already been noted . " The Roaring Girl ", a city comedy that incorporates the real-life contemporary figure'Moll Cutpurse', otherwise known as Mary Frith, was a collaboration with Middleton in 1611.
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In her performance as Moll Cutpurse in " The Roaring Girl " at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in January 1983, and at the Barbican Theatre in April 1983 she was described as having " swaggered through the action with radiant singularity of purpose, filling in areas of light and shade that even Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker omitted . " Michael Coveney, " Financial Times ", April 1983.
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It is also described as a poaching method in Roald Dahl's classic novel " Danny, the Champion of the World ", in Linda Buckley-Archer's science fiction novel " Gideon the Cutpurse ", in Robert A . Heinlein's fantasy novel " Glory Road ", and in the video game " Theme Hospital " as a hobby of many of the staff for hire.
