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Author(s):  
Claudine van Hensbergen

Taking as its focus the satirical play The Female Wits: or, the Triumvirate of Poets at Rehearsal (1696) this chapter reconstructs the satirical milieu around female dramatists at the turn of the eighteenth century. The leading playwright Susannah Centlivre repeatedly claimed that female dramatists only found success where they obscured their gender, with discriminatory attitudes laying them open to ‘the carping Malice of the Vulgar World’. This chapter explores the extent to which this was true, examining whether we should read The Female Wits as a misogynistic silencing of women playwrights, or rather as a work that speaks to their commercial popularity. By contextualizing this analysis through the writings of Centlivre and her contemporaries Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix, and Catharine Trotter, as well as considering their treatment in the stage reform debates, the chapter argues that scholars may have overestimated the power of satire to curtail the careers of female dramatists.


Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
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The final decade of the century saw changes and challenges to the London commercial stage, including Jeremy Collier’s attack on it for profanity and immorality. Dramatists including Dryden, Congreve, and Southerne defended their writings as promoting good morality, while a group of female dramatists comprising Mary Pix, Delarivier Manley, and Catharine Trotter became a target of satire, referred to as the ‘Female Wits’. Audiences were increasingly interested in new forms of plays called ‘operas’ that required more singers, dancers and stage effects.


Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell

The transition between the reigns of Charles II and James II brought controversy, with an openly practicing Catholic on the throne, the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion, and the consolidation of the Whig and Tory parties in Parliament. Poets and dramatists responded to these national events. while also dealing with increasing attempts by both court and clergy such as Jeremy Collier to reform the libertine court and stage. A new generation of dramatists appeared, including William Congreve, Thomas Southerne, and the so-called Female Wits, Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix, and CatharineTrotter.


The Library ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol s5-IX (4) ◽  
pp. 248-254
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FREDSON BOWERS
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