Susanna Centlivre
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Susanna Centlivre, also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century". Centlivre's "pieces continued to b
A mezzotint of Susanna Centlivre by Peter Pelham (1720), based on a painting by D. Fermin
Centlivre's The Busie Body
Title page of Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife, 1718
Poster for 1807 production of Centlivre's The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret!!!
Restoration comedy
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Restoration comedy is English theatrical comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym for this. After public stage performances were bann
Susanna Centlivre
…comedies, often following the Spanish style, which is "romantic in plot and spirit, [but containing] far more of the emotions of love and jealousy than Restoration comedies." This type of comedy tended to focus on the romantic intrigues among a triangle of wealthy main characters (generally one young woman being fought…
Nell Gwynn was one of the first actresses and the mistress of Charles II.
John Vanbrugh, The Provoked Wife: "These are good times. A woman may have a gallant and a separate maintenance too."
The Rover by Aphra Behn is now a repertory favourite.