History Matters / Celebrating Women's Plays of the Past

Susanna Centlivre

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Biography

Her Works

The Busy Body

1709

The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret

1714

The theatre, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why its instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

-Hallie Flanigan