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Author(s): | Homem, Rui Carvalho |
Title: | Misogyny or Misanthropy : the doubtful case of Ben Jonhson's Epicoene |
Publisher: | Porto : Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
Abstract: | As its title suggests, Ben Jonson´s comedy Epicoene, or The Silent Woman lays a crucial emphasis on women´s identity and behaviour. Women in this play are satirized both as voluble embodiments of falsehood or depravity and as the agents of a ´monstrous´ and incompetently pursued will to power. But male characters also conspicuously fail to take on a normative status - as they are found to be either ´unnatural´ hen-pecked husbands, impotent and cowardly fools, or sadistic and amoral (though triumphant) rogues. The design of mi-sogynous satire is thus diluted with a more universal indictment, or else with misanthropy´s benevolent counterpart - a shoulder-shrugging moral relativism which can be recognised as a hallmark of later Jonsonian comedy. |
Subject: | Literatura inglesa |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10216/10879 |
Catalogue Link: | https://catalogo.up.pt:443/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000777760 |
Source: | Revista da Faculdade de Letras : Estudos, 1, 2001 (número único), p.57 |
Document Type: | Artigo em Revista Científica Nacional |
Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FLUP - Artigo em Revista Científica Nacional |
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