Epicoene

Epicoene
Title Epicoene PDF eBook
Author Ben Jonson
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 168
Release 2015-07-17
Genre
ISBN 9781515119777

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Epicoene, or The silent woman, also known as Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. It was originally performed by the Blackfriars Children or Children of the Queen's Revels, a group of boy players, in 1609. It was, by Jonson's admission, a failure on its first presentation; however, John Dryden and others championed it, and after the Restoration it was frequently revived-indeed, a reference by Samuel Pepys to a performance on 6 July 1660 places it among the first plays legally performed after Charles II's ascension. The play takes place in London. Morose, a wealthy old man with an obsessive hatred of noise, has made plans to disinherit his nephew Dauphine by marrying. His bride Epic ne is, he thinks, an exceptionally quiet woman; he does not know that Dauphine has arranged the whole match for purposes of his own. The couple are married despite the well-meaning interference of Dauphine's friend True-wit. Morose soon regrets his wedding day, as his house is invaded by a charivari that comprises Dauphine, True-wit, and Clerimont; a bear warden named Otter and his wife; two stupid knights, La Foole and Daw; and an assortment of "collegiates," vain and scheming women with intellectual pretensions. Worst for Morose, Epic ne quickly reveals herself as a loud, nagging mate."

Epicene, Or, The Silent Woman

Epicene, Or, The Silent Woman
Title Epicene, Or, The Silent Woman PDF eBook
Author Ben Jonson
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 358
Release 2003
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780719055430

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This authoritative new edition of "Epicene" locates it precisely in the world of Jacobean wit, court, commerce sexual ambiguity and theatrical innovation which are its own subject-matter.

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies
Title The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies PDF eBook
Author Thomas Dekker
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 486
Release 2001
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780192828002

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The Oxford English Drama series offers plays from the 16th to the early 20th centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. Each text is freshly edited using modern spelling.

Selected Philosophical Works

Selected Philosophical Works
Title Selected Philosophical Works PDF eBook
Author Francis Bacon
Publisher Hackett Publishing
Pages 340
Release 1999-01-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780872204706

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The most comprehensive collection available of Bacon's philosophical and scientific writings, this volume offers Bacon's major works in their entirety, or in generous selections, revised from the classic 19th century editions of Spedding, Ellis and Heath. Selections from Bacon's natural histories round out this edition by showing the types of compilations that he believed would most contribute to the third part of his Great Instauration. In her General Introduction, Rose-Mary Sargent sketches Bacon's early life, education, and legal career, and discusses the major components of his philosophical works, and traces his influence on subsequent natural philosophy.

Female Husbands

Female Husbands
Title Female Husbands PDF eBook
Author Jen Manion
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 355
Release 2020-03-26
Genre History
ISBN 1108483801

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A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.

Ben Jonson and Posterity

Ben Jonson and Posterity
Title Ben Jonson and Posterity PDF eBook
Author Martin Butler
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 273
Release 2020-10-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 110890663X

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Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.

Famous Women

Famous Women
Title Famous Women PDF eBook
Author Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 324
Release 2003
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780674011304

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Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.