FIRST 100 YEARS:
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Female Playwright


SUSANNA CENTLIVRE Bibliography


Biography

  • Bowyer, J. W.
    The Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre.
    Durham: Duke Univ Press, 1952.

Plays

  • Centlivre, Susanna.
    The Plays of Susanna Centlivre.
    Richard C. Frushell, ed. New York: Garland, 1982.

General

  • Butler, Douglas R. "Plot and Politics in Susannah Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife," Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820. Athens: Ohio UP, 1991, pp. 357-70.

  • Collins, Margo. "Centlivre v. Hardwicke: Susannah Centlivre’s Plays and the Marriage Act of 1753," Comparative Drama 33 (Summer 1999): 179-98

  • Frushell, Richard C. "Marriage and Marrying in Susanna Centlivre’s Plays," PLL 22 (Winter 1986): 16-38.

  • Herrell, LuAnn Venden. " ‘Luck Be a Lady Tonight,’ or at least Make Me a Gentleman: Economic Anxiety in Centlivre’s The Gamester." Studies in the Literary Imagination 32 (no. 2, Fall 1999): 45-61.

  • Kinney, Suz-Anne. "Confinement Sharpens the Invention: Aphra Behn’s The Rover and Susannah Centlivre’s The Busy Body," Look Who’s Laughing: Gender And Comedy. Gail Finney, ed. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1994, pp. 81-98.

  • Kreis-Schink, Annette. Women, Writing, And The Theater In The Early Modern Period: The Plays of Aphra Behn And Susanna Centlivre. Madison: Farleigh Dicksinson Univ Press, 2001