Moll Flanders - the amorous adventures of - is a sprawling, brawling, gaudy, bawdy, tongue-in-cheek comedy that seeks to caricaturize an 18th-century London wench's desire to be a gentlewoman and her ...

Moll’s mother, a thief, is executed, and Moll is sent to a nunnery. Abused by a priest, she rebels as a teenager and runs away to the rough streets of London. After facing many difficulties, she ends ...

In her filthy cell in Newgate prison Moll Flanders (Alex Kingston), dubbed "the wickedest woman in England" tells her story. Born in jail, after her mother is transported there, Moll is raised by the ...

Jessica Hynes stars as Moll Flanders to Ben Miles's Daniel Defoe, in Nick Perry's free adaptation of the 18th-century classic. Daniel Defoe, once more in need of ready money, finds inspiration for a ...

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GreenMan Theatre Troupe has secured an Addison location for its Nov. 6-15 production of “Midnight and Moll Flanders,” playwright Marie Kohler’s contemporary version of Daniel Defoe’s 1722 ...

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Moll Flanders is a picaresque novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be an autobiographical account of the life of the eponymous heroine, detailing her exploits from birth ...