The play also provides an expression of the females-out-of-control theme that is so central and recurrent in Jonson's plays, from the Ladies Collegiate in " Epicene " ( 1609 ) to the three bad servants in " The Magnetic Lady " ( 1632 ).
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According to Zamenhof it's also the epicene ( gender-neutral ) third-person singular pronoun, meaning for use when the gender of an individual is unknown, is in-between'male'and'female', or for when the speaker simply doesn't wish to clarify the gender.
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As an isolated anecdote, a Quebec labour union once decided to promulgate an epicene neologism on the model of " fid�le ", calling itself the " F�d�ration des professionn�les ", rather than use either " professionnels " ( masculine only ) or " professionnels et professionnelles " ( masculine and feminine ).
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He appears in Elektra " his voice is " a decidedly high-pitched tenor, punctuated by irrational upward leaps, that rises to high pitched squeals during his death colloquy with Elektra . " In the first production he was depicted as " an epicene . . . with long curly locks and rouged lips, half-cringing, half-posturing seductively ."
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Mortier's battles with everyone and everything, from Salzburg festival officials and merchants to Karajan in absentia to Joerg Haider ( the animus behind the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party ) to Thomas Klestil ( the president of Austria ) to basic good sense ( this year's flamboyantly epicene program-book photographs ) may have served a deeper purpose . ( MORE ) nn
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She made her debut in the title role of Epicene " on 1 June 1664 . ( She was cast as Lucetta in Killigrew's 1664 planned production of his " Thomaso ", with an all-female cast, which was cancelled before completion . ) Knep played major and minor roles in a range of productions of the 1660s and 1670s, including:
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Yet everything else is there : the cartoonish phasing, the cuteness, the lyrical figures of speech, the " bright, pert, peppermint-stick people, epicene, with cotton-candy hair and sugar smiles . " ( Damon Knight, In Search of Wonder . ) Ray Bradbury has lost his rockets, his Martians, and his paraphernalia of ghost and skeletons.
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The " sexual personae " of Paglia's title include the female vampire ( Medusa, Lauren Bacall ); the pythoness ( the Delphic Oracle, Gracie Allen ); the beautiful boy ( Hadrian's Antinous, Dorian Gray ); the epicene man of beauty ( Byron, Elvis Presley ); and the male heroine ( the passive male sufferer, for example, the old men in William Wordsworth's poetry ).
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The governess, Mistress Polish, the midwife, Mother Chair, and the nurse, Mistress Keep ( representing the " smock-secrets " of women ), are a set of females out of control & mdash; a theme that Jonson visits again and again in his works, as in the Ladies Collegiate in " Epicene " and the chorus of she-critics in " The Staple of News ."
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In " The Nation ", reviewer Katha Pollitt said : " Gibson has violated just about every precept of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops own 1988'Criteria'for the portrayal of Jews in dramatizations of the Passion ( no bloodthirsty Jews, no rabble, no use of Scripture that reinforces negative stereotypes of Jews, etc . ) [ . . . ] The priests have big noses and gnarly faces, lumpish bodies, yellow teeth; Herod Antipas and his court are a bizarre collection of oily-haired, epicene perverts.
