The most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century,
Susanna Centlivre enjoyed a long career at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where she became known as the second woman of the English stage, after Aphra Behn. She penned entertaining dramas that avoided rough satiric material, poking fun instead at general human nature. She adopted many of the comic types of the Restoration stage, treating them with a tolerance uncharacteristic of her times. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Centlivre’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Centlivre’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All 19 plays, with individual contents tables
* Features rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the plays were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Includes Centlivre’s complete poetry – available here for the first time in publishing history
* Also includes Centlivre’s epistles – available in no other collection
* Features a bonus biography – discover Centlivre’s theatrical life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Plays
The Perjur’d Husband (1700)
The Beau’s Duel (1702)
The Stolen Heiress (1702)
Love’s Contrivance (1703)
The Gamester (1705)
The Basset Table (1705)
Love at a Venture (1706)
The Platonick Lady (1706)
The Busie Body (1709)
The Man’s Bewitched (1709)
A Bickerstaff’s Burying (1710)
Marplot (1710)
The Perplex’d Lovers (1712)
The Wonder (1714)
A Gotham Election (1715)
A Wife Well Managed (1715)
The Cruel Gift (1716)
A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718)
The Artifice (1722)
The Poetry
The Poetry of Susanna Centlivre
The Letters
Familiar and Courtly Letters (1700)
The Second Volume of Familiar Letters as Astraea (1701)
Letters of Wit, Politicks and Morality as Astraea (1701)
The Biography
Susannah Centlivre (1900) by John Joseph Knight
