Elizabeth Griffith

Author(s)

• Rizzo, Betty

Bibliographic Information

Elizabeth Griffith

edited by Betty Rizzo

（Eighteenth-century women playwrights / general editor, Derek Hughes, v. 4）

Pickering & Chatto, 2001

• [set]

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn. It includes the work of Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, Eliza Haywood and Elizabeth Griffith.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1 Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), Eliza Haywood (c. 1693?-1736) Delarivier Manley: The Lost Lover
• The Royal Mischief Eliza Haywood: The Fair Captive
• A Wife to be Lett Volume 2 Mary Pix (1666-c. 1720) Catherine Trotter (1679-1749) Mary Pix: The Deceiver Deceived
• Queen Catharine Catherine Trotter: Love at a Loss
• The Revolution of Sweden Volume 3 Susanna Centlivre (c. 1670-1723) The Basset-Table
• The Busie Body
• The Wonder! a Woman Keeps a Secret
• A Bold Stroke for a Wife Volume 4 Elizabeth Griffith (c. 1720-93) The Platonic Wife
• The Double Mistake
• The School for Rakes
• A Wife in the Right Volume 5 Hannah Cowley (1743-1809) The Runaway
• The Belle's Stratagem
• A Bold Stroke for a Husband
• The Town Before You Volume 6 Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) The Widow's Vow
• Such Things Are
• The Child of Nature
• Next Door Neighbours
• Wives as they Were and Maids as they Are

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Details

• NCID: BA6173530X
• ISBN:
  • 1851966161
• LCCN: 00057447
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 285 p.
• Size: 24cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR1269
  • DC21 : 822/.50809287
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English drama -- 18th century
  • LCSH : English drama -- Women authors
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA51628507