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Comical Satire, Merchant and Merry Wives and Jonson's Playful Gender

In our reliance on the Shakespeare/Jonson comparison and the subsequent application of anachronistic labels proto-feminist and misogynist, we miss what is really going on in Jonson's work. Alongside Shakespeare's Merry Wives, I examine Jonson's representations of women during his comical satire phase (1599-1601) to suggest his use of playful gender--explicit deconstructions of gender as an identity category--and to advocate against the inflexible gender our scholarly blind spot for Jonson and Gender risks.

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