FIRST 100 YEARS:
The Professional
Female Playwright


General Bibliography

  • Ammusen, Susan Dwyer.
    An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England.
    Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

  • Anderson, Misty G.
    Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage.
    New York: Palgrave, 2002.

  • Backschneider, Paula.
    Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England.
    Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1993.

  • Bolton, Betsy.
    Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and Politics in Britain 1780-1800.
    Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 2001.

  • Brant Clare & Diane Purkiss eds.
    Women, Texts and Histories, 1575-1760.
    London: Routledge, 1992.

  • Braverman, Richard Lewis.
    Plot and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730.
    Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1993

  • Burroughs, Catherine, ed.
    Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840.
    New York: Cambridge Univ Press, 2000.

  • Canfield, J. Douglas.
    Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy.
    Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

  • Cotton, Nancy.
    Women Playwrights In England ca. 1363-1750.
    Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ Press, 1980.

  • Craft-Fairchild, Catherine.
    Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth Century Fictions By Women.
    University Park: Penn State, 1993.

  • Donkin, Ellen.
    Getting Into the Act: Women Playwrights in London, 1776-1829.
    London, New York: Routledge, 1995.

  • Finney, Gail ed.
    Look Who’s Laughing: Gender and Comedy.
    Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1994.

  • Grundy, Isobel & Susan Wiseman eds.
    Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740.
    London: Batsford, 1992.

  • Howe, Elizabeth.
    The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700.
    Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.

  • Laurence, Anne.
    Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History.
    London: Macmillian, 1994.

  • Paster, Gail Kern.
    The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England.
    Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

  • Pearson, Jacqueline.
    The Prostituted Muse: Images of Women and Women Dramatists, 1642-1737.
    Brighton: Harvester, 1988.

  • Prior, Mary ed.
    Women in English Society, 1500-1800.
    London & New York: Methuen, 1985.

  • Quinsey, Catherine ed.
    Broken Boundaries: Women & Feminism in Restoration Drama.
    Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996.

  • Rosenthal, Laura J.
    Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England: Gender , Authorship, Literary Property.
    Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1996.

  • Rubik, Margarete.
    Early Women Dramatists, 1550-1800.
    New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

  • Schofield, Mary Anne and Cecilia Macheski eds.
    Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820.
    Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1991

  • Straub, Kristina.
    Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth Century Players and Sexual Ideology.
    Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.