1st Edition

Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 3

By Derek Hughes Copyright 2001
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 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 3: Acknowledgements vii Introduction to volume 3 Chronology of Susanna Centlivre List of actors SUSANNA CENTLIVRE The Basset-Table (1705) The Busie Body (1709) The Wonder: a Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) Notes Select bibliography

Biography

Derek Hughes