Major voices
18th century women playwrights
Gedrukt boek
The plays in this anthology show the range of work that women were writing for the stage throughout the eighteenth century, from comedies to social satire, melodrama and tragedy. Included are introductions to the period and to each play. The plays are: A bold stroke for a wife / Susannah Centlivre; A wife to be let / by Eliza Haywood; The witlings / by Fanny Burney; The belle's stratagem / by Hannah Cowley; Lovers'vows / by Elizabeth Inchbald; Sir Charles grandison / by Jane Austen; The visit / by Jane Austen.