Epicœne, or The Silent Woman, also known as Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson.The play 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. In 1655 she was taken into custody for publicly preaching in the market of Carlisle, England. It would be difficult to fully describe that long "silent" life of the young woman. She was, to be sure, the "first" woman in the gasse; she had everything in abundance. Anti Semitism is rising. A SILENT WOMAN ... Every man in his Humour drama in Tamil/ Ben Johnson ... Translating Channel English into Tamil Recommended for you. The Silent Woman by Terry Lynn Thomas is a marvellous historical suspense that had me engrossed from the start. At the time, women were expected to remain silent in public — it would be more than a decade before Margaret Fells published her pamphlet Women Speaking … Veile accompanied her husband to his home, that house resplendent with that gold and silver which had infatuated her. Opening in 1930's Nazi Germany with Hitler in power, ordinary lives are beginning to be affected. 17:15. Opposition is squashed. It is almost impossible to cite more than one incident.