Early Women Dramatists 1550–1801

MARGARETE RUBIK is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Vienna, having studied English and History in Vienna and American Studies at the University of Southern California. She has published extensively on women's drama and the Victorian novel.

Author's Note.-  Introduction I: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries .- Women Dramatists of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.- Introduction II: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Restoration Period; Aphra Behn.- Women Writers at the Turn of the Century; Susanna Centlivre.- Introduction III: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Eighteenth Century.- Women Dramatists of the Late Eighteenth Century; Hannah Cowley & Elizabeth Inchbald.- Contemporary and Modern Perfomances of the Plays.- Towards a Female Tradition in Theatre.- Selected Bibliography.- Notes.- Index.