1st Edition

Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 5

By Derek Hughes Copyright 2001
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 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 5: Acknowledgements Introduction to volume 5 Chronology of Hannah Cowley List of actors HANNAH COWLEY The Runaway (1776) The Belle’s Stratagem (1780) A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1783) The Town Before You (1794) Notes Select bibliography

Biography

Derek Hughes