Centlivre, Susanna | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Frushell, Richard C. “Marriage and Marrying in Susanna Centlivre's Plays.” Papers on Language and Literature 22, no. 1 (winter 1986): 16-38.
Links Centlivre's treatment of marriage to the concerns and mores of Restoration comedy, calling the playwright a “barometer” of changes in the drama in the early eighteenth century.
Jerrold, Walter. “Susanna Centlivre: ‘The Cook's Wife of Buckingham Court’.” In Five Queer Women, pp. 139-99. New York: Brentano's, 1929.
Chiefly biographical study of Centlivre as one of five professional female authors, relying heavily on legend and conjecture; emphasizes her struggle for legitimacy.
Morgan, Fidelis. “Susannah Centlivre.” In The Female Wits: Women Playwrights of the Restoration, pp. 51-61. London: Virago Press, 1981.
Brief biography of Centlivre, emphasizing the stage history of her works and her...
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