"On the domestic front, women like the collegiate ladies, Mistress Otter, and Morose's 'bride' of Jonson's Epicoene (Queen's Revels, 1609), women who adopt mannish behavior if not actual clothing, are satirized for their impudence in usurping male prerogatives and authority." (26)
Shapiro, Michael. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy
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