Susanna Centlivre

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…

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…

Centlivre's first play: a tragedy. Star-crossed lovers, one married and the other betrothed elsewhere. Secret letters gone astray, gender ch…

The Friday Play: The Basset Table Fri 10th Aug 1990, 21:30 on BBC Radio 3 By Susanna Centlivre, adapted by Fidelis Morga…

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,…

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 …

Sir Richard wants his daughter Valeria to marry a Navy Captain, but she is more interested in young Ensign Lovely. Meanwhile.... - Summary b…

The usual: One Woman with two suitors for her hand. One preferred by the woman, another preferred for her by her father. How might she get h…

Young Valere, in love with Angelica, has been amusing himself at the gaming tables, and not surprisingly getting himself in both financial t…