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…

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

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…