Susanna Centlivre
The Busie Body
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A rich heiress pretending to be in love with her guardian, but with several other suitors. A jealous merchant from Spain with a beautiful b…
The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret
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Donna Isabella does not want to marry Don Guzman, her father's choice. Donna Violante's father wants her to become a nun. Isabella is attack…
Susanna Centlivre The Bassett Table
The Friday Play: The Basset Table Fri 10th Aug 1990, 21:30 on BBC Radio 3 By Susanna Centlivre, adapted by Fidelis Morga…
The Perjur'd Husband, or The Adventures of Venice
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Centlivre's first play: a tragedy. Star-crossed lovers, one married and the other betrothed elsewhere. Secret letters gone astray, gender ch…
The Stolen Heiress
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Claiming that his son has died while away, Lord Gravello makes it appear that his daughter is now "the Heir to all [his] vast Revenues,…
The Beau's Duel, or A Soldier for the Ladies
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A comedy, this was Centlivre's second play, first presented in 1702, and in her prologue she has made a big deal of the fact that this play …
The Gamester
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Young Valere, in love with Angelica, has been amusing himself at the gaming tables, and not surprisingly getting himself in both financial t…