num_pages: 165
description: Epicoene or The Silent Woman is about a man named Dauphine who creates a scheme to get his inheritance from his uncle Morose. The plan involves setting Morose up to marry Epicoene a boy disguised as a woman. It was originally performed by the Blackfriars Children or Children of the Queen's Revels a group of boy players in 1609. Excluding its two prologues the play is written entirely in prose.
language: English
title: Epicoene or The Silent Woman
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc