Women Playwrights in England, Ireland, and Scotland (1660‐1823)

This guide is intended for an eclectic audience: “Students of the Restoration, the Eighteenth Century, and the Romantic era; theatre historians; feminist scholars; researchers of drama; theatre directors; analysers of popular culture; as well as general readers”. The aim is “to advance investigations into female playwrights and their dramas from the late seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century”. As the compilers also explain in their Preface, they begin with the year 1660: it was the Restoration of Charles II to the throne which first allowed women on the English stage. The somewhat curious terminal date of 1823 is due...