Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613–1713

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713 examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are traced in women's plays. The study represents a major overhaul of current theories of the evolution of English drama as well as offering an unprecedented reconstruction of the genealogy of seventeenth-century English women playwrights.