Bøker av Susanna Centlivre

A play that follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy. It challenges contemporary stereotypes of the learned lady and offers a picture of a female scientist at work.

Susanna Centlivre's play The Wonder (1714) was one of the most popular works on the eighteenth-century English stage.This Broadview edition includes contemporary responses (by Richard Steele and Arthur Bedford), biographical accounts, selections of Centlivre's poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt).