Saturday, September 22, 2007

Epicene and Gender

What is the nature of gender binaries represented in Epicene? How are Dauphine and Morose foils to one another while simultaneously engaged and embedded in this binary?

What is the nature of silence and how does silence relate to action/inaction in Epicene? Particularly if we think of Act 2, scenes 1 and 5.

In a lot of ways, I feel this play is both far more serious and yet comedic than the others we've read. The end is hilarious for the audience and Morose's humilation. Yet, it's also a very destructive ending with Truewit and Clerimont betrayed as well as Morose and Epicene. I wonder how the audience is supposed to react....

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