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| The analysis also highlights the significance of silence in Jonson's plays; in plays t hat seem memorable often for the geysers of pressurized speech that characterize his Truewits, Otters, and Corvinos, the silent or silenced characters, often servants, women, or putative women -- Mute, Celia, Frances, Placentia, Epicoene -- become focal points for dramatic interpretation, particularly when their voices have been appropriated by other characters. Dillon caps her argument concerning the ambiguity of theater and the ambivalence of playwrights with a fresh look at Ben Jonson in two guises, first in her penultimate chapter as the commissioned author of the entertainment celebrating the opening of the New Exchange in 1609, then in her ultimate chapter as the author of Epicoene, first performed probably less than a year after the opening of Cecil's grand mall. In Jonson's Epicoene, for example, Otter explains that "a boy or child under years is not fit for marriage because he cannot reddere debitum [literally 'pay the debt']" (5. |
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