Epicene, or the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Epicene, or the Silent Woman

Ben Jonson

338 pages first pub 1616 (editions)

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Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirizes the newly fashionable and sexually ambiguous world of the West End of London, where cou...

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