Susanna Centlivre

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The Perjur'd Husband: or, The Adventures of Venice (play) 1700

The Beau's Duel: or, A Soldier for the Ladies (play) 1702

The Stolen Heiress: or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted (play) 1702

Love's Contrivance: or, Le Médecin malgré Lui (play) 1703

The Basset-Table (play) 1705

The Gamester (play) 1705

Love at a Venture (play) 1706

The Platonick Lady (play) 1706

The Busie Body (play) 1709

The Man's bewitch'd: or, the Devil to do about Her (play) 1709

A Bickerstaff's Burying: or, Work for the Upholders (play) 1710

Mar-plot: or, The Second Part of the Busie Body (play) 1710

The Masquerade. A Poem. Humbly Inscribed to his Grace the Duke d'Aumont (poem) 1712

The Perplex'd Lovers (play) 1712

An Epistle to Mrs. Wallup Now in the Train of Her Royal Highness, The Princess of Wales. As it was sent to her in the Hague (poem) 1714

A Poem. Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty, George, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Upon His Accession to the Throne (poem) 1714

The Wonder: A Woman keeps a Secret (play) 1714

*The Humours of Elections. And a Cure for Cuckoldom: or, The Wife Well Manag'd (plays) 1715

The Cruel Gift; or, The Royal Resentment (play) 1716

An Epistle to the King of Sweden From a Lady of Great Britain (poem) 1717

A Bold Stroke for a Wife (play) 1718

A Woman's Case: In an Epistle to Charles Joye, Esq.; Deputy Governor of the South-Sea (poem) 1720

The Artifice (play) 1722

Four Celebrated Comedies (plays) 1735

The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre. 3 vols. (plays) 1760-61

The Dramatic Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre with a new Account of her Life (plays) 1872

The Plays of Susanna Centlivre. 3 vols. (plays) 1982

*These two farces were also published separately in 1715 as The Gotham Election and A Wife Well Manag'd.

†This collection includes The Beau's Duel, The Basset-Table, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, and The Artifice.

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