num_pages: 448
description: These four plays, written by women dramatists during the Restoration, are now available in a single edition. This volume includes Mary Pix's The Innocent Mistress , Susanna Centlivre's The Busy-Body , Elizabeth Griffith's The Times , and Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem ; thereby introducingreaders to some of the earliest published women dramatists. The text is freshly edited using modern spelling. The critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliography illuminate the plays' cultural context and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.
language: English
title: Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists
titlecomplete: Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists (Oxford World's Classics)
genres: Plays, Classics, Drama
ratings_count: 60
publisher: Oxford University Press