Hannah Cowley

"Plays, where the scene is placed in a foreign country, particularly when that country is Spain, have a license to present certain impr…

Impoverished Lords. Rich Lords and Ladies with no sense; other folk with Big Plans. Charlatans. Fools. Buffoons. Disguises. Clever Wives and…

"Oh! Lord Sparkle! - Who can resist the gay, the elegant, the all-conquering Lord Sparkle? The most distinguished feather in the plume …

The first play by Cowley, this was premiered at Drury Lane by actor-manager David Garrick, to whom it is dedicated, in 1776. It was successf…

The Beaux Stratagem, already in the LibriVox catalog (https://librivox.org/beaux-stratagem-by-george-farquhar/), was written by George Farqu…

A short farce. Scholar meets woman. "Plato! Aristotle! Zeno! I abjure ye. A girl bred in a nursery, in whose soul the sacred lamp of kn…

Cowley: "I offer the following Comedy to the public, under a circumstance which has given my mind the most exquisite uneasiness. On the…