Ben Jonson

Article: The Shakespeare Theatre Presents the American Professional ...
PR Newswire;  January 7, 2003 ;     689 words ... ... Ben Johnson's elaborate farce "The Silent Woman" receives its American professional ... wit with an outrageous plot, "The Silent Woman" explores the differences between what ... profess to be. "Jonson wrote 'The Silent Woman' at the height of his success and at ...

The Silent Woman, by Ben Jonson
NYPL Digital Gallery;  January 1, 1934 ;     257 words ...

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: "On forfeit of your selves, think nothing true": Ben ...
Early Modern Literary Studies;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Self-Deception in Ben Jonson's Epicoene J.A ... Self-Deception in Ben Jonson's Epicoene." Early ... prologue to Epicoene)[1] Ben Jonson's "second prologue ... s Epicoene, or The Silent Woman was first performed in ...

Article: Ben Jonson Play Gets U.S. Production
AP Online;  January 25, 2003 ;     604 words ... ... there contracted. The Silent Woman closes March 9 ... as Epicoene-The Silent Woman, left, and Ted Van ... dress rehearsal for The Silent Woman, Saturday, Jan. 18 ... admired work by playwright Ben Jonson, a sharp critic and ...

Article: Refashioning society in Ben Jonson's 'Epicoene.'
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... understood in reproductive terms. In his city comedy Epicoene, Ben Jonson explores how a protocapitalist marketplace could transform ... an heir. Dauphine triumphs over Morose by proferring a "silent woman" - Epicoene - for his audiophobic uncle to wed. As soon ...

Article: "Things like truths, well feigned": mimesis and secrecy in ...
Comparative Drama;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... faded in significance, but we do know that it remained in Ben Jonson's time a central concern for theorists and artists alike ... seen most clearly in a play like Jonson's Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (first performed December 1609 or January 1610); from start ...