Article: "On forfeit of your selves, think nothing true": Ben Jonson's use of Deception in Epicoene.

Article: Jonson's Epicoene.(Ben Jonson)(Critical ...
The Explicator;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The lists in Ben Jonson's Epicoene continually relegate characters ... central to our discussion of Epicoene and possibly provide a way of ... in "Refashioning Society in Ben Jonson's Epicoene," "It is important to realize ...

Article: Refashioning society in Ben Jonson's ...
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... reproductive terms. In his city comedy Epicoene, Ben Jonson explores how a protocapitalist ... satirized in his plays."(8) Epicoene reveals Jonson's complex response ... hereditary social order.(9) In Epicoene, I will argue, commodity relations ...

Article: "Things like truths, well feigned": mimesis and secrecy in ...
Comparative Drama;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... but we do know that it remained in Ben Jonson's time a central concern for theorists ... most clearly in a play like Jonson's Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (first performed ... he practices the art of imitation in Epicoene by presenting a patently false "speaking ...

Article: Ben Jonson
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Ben Jonson The English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is best known for his satiric comedies ... the greatest dramatic genius of the English Renaissance. Ben Jonson was probably born in or near London, about a month after ...

Article: Ben Jonson Play Gets U.S. Production
AP Online;  January 25, 2003 ;     605 words ... ... WASHINGTON [image omitted] Playwright Ben Jonson was a sharp critic and rival of William ... In The Silent Woman she's named Epicoene, from an ancient Greek word that ... The much admired work by playwright Ben Jonson, a sharp critic and rival of William ...

Article: Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City ...
The Modern Language Review;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. By MATHEW R ... gallants Rearage and Salewood (p. 56). Epicoene breaks down the distinction between fools ... suggestion that all three gallants in Epicoene are idealized models of humanist wit ...

Article: Mathew R. Martin. Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in ...
Comparative Drama;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... comments, for example, that Jonson's Daw and La Foole in Epicoene "are provided with no way of detecting their epistemological ... early modern literary studies: Volpone, Michaelmas Term, Epicoene, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Alchemist, A Chaste Maid ...