A Bold Stroke for a Wife

by Susanna Centlivre

Book Overview

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. Only in recent years has Centlivre come to be recognized quite straightforwardly as one of the most brilliant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551110210
• ISBN13: 9781551110219
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"