1st Edition

Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 1

By Derek Hughes Copyright 2001
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn. It includes the work of Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, Eliza Haywood and Elizabeth Griffith.

Volume 1: General introduction Acknowledgements xix Introduction to volume 1 Chronology of Delarivier Manley Chronology of Eliza Haywood xlv List of actors DELARIVIER MANLEY The Lost Lover (1696) The Royal Mischief (1696) ELIZA HAYWOOD The Fair Captive (1721) A Wife to be Lett (1724) Notes Select bibliography

Biography

Derek Hughes