This play's plot centers on an old man's attempt to disinherit his nephew by wedding a mute woman, due to his hatred of noise.
One character in this play is beaten out of a party by his wife, after she hears him say her breath is worse than his grandmother's, though he returns dressed as a parson. Two men claim to have slept with this play's title character after Clerimont returns their swords, testimony used to prove them as liars to the Collegiates; those men, John Daw and Amorous la Foole were the butts of a joke wherein a rug-cloaked character beats them so that they can avoid fighting one another. One prolix character in this play forces the barber Cutbeard, his mediator in a marriage deal with the title character, and his servant, Mute, to answer only with silent gestures. This play's plot centers on an old man's attempt to disinherit his nephew by wedding a mute woman, due to his hatred of noise. For 10 points, Dauphine dissolves his uncle's marriage by proving that Morose married a boy instead of the title "silent woman" in what Ben Jonson comedy? 
One character in this play is beaten out of a party by his wife, after she hears him say her breath is worse than his grandmother's, though he returns dressed as a parson.
Epicene, or The Silent Woman [accept "The Silent Woman" before it is said]