A Bold Stroke for a Wife (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Editions)

by SusannahCentlivre (Author), NancyCopeland (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1995

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  Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of 'the female pen,' and to pay as much attention to the playwright's marriages and amorous liasons than to the plays themselves.