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    Susanna Centlivre (c. 1669 (baptised) – 1 December 1723), born Susanna Freeman, and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet,...
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  • Gamester is a 1705 comedy by the English writer Susanna Centlivre. This marked the first time Centlivre had a star cast in one of her productions, and...
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    of the affectation of kind-heartedness, and little efficient aid." Susanna Centlivre wrote a successful play, The Busie Body, which was first performed...
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    A Bold Stroke for a Wife (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    A Bold Stroke for a Wife is Susanna Centlivre's 18th-century satirical English play first performed in 1718. The plot expresses the author's unabashed...
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  • Love's Contrivance (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    Love's Contrivance is a 1703 comedy play by the English writer Susanna Centlivre. The cast featured Robert Wilks as Bellmie, Anne Oldfield as Belliza...
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  • The Perjur'd Husband: or, The Adventures of Venice (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    Venice is a tragicomedy written by Susanna Centlivre and first performed and printed in 1700. It was Centlivre's first published play. The play is set...
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    tradition of breeches roles and en travesti. Actress and playwright Susanna Centlivre appeared in breeches roles around 1700. The first popular male impersonator...
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    18th century: Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, and Susanna Centlivre. A broad study of most never-reprinted Restoration comedies has been...
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  • The Busie Body (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    The Busie Body is a Restoration comedy written by Susanna Centlivre and first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1709. It focuses on the legalities...
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  • The Beau's Duel (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    The Beau's Duel is a 1702 comedy play by the English writer Susanna Centlivre. The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast included John Corey as Colonel Manly...
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    Manley (who wrote as "Melpomene" and "Thalia") and includes pieces by Susanna Centlivre ("perhaps," according to Blain et al.), Sarah Fyge Egerton ("Erato"...
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    Lying Lover by Richard Steele 1703, Belliza – Love's Contrivance by Susanna Centlivre 1703, Lucia – The Old Mode and the New by Thomas d'Urfey 1704, Lady...
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  • The Artifice (play) (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    The Artifice is a 1722 comedy by the British writer Susanna Centlivre. It was her final play, returning to the more robust style of restoration comedy...
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    allusion to a play, whose title he never gives, "by Aphra Behn or Susanna Centlivre," in which "this vice of travel journals is ridiculed with finesse"...
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    1817 with equal success, as Donna Violenta in The Wonder (1714) by Susanna Centlivre. It seems from most of the newspaper reports of her acting that she...
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  • from the album Terminal Earth, 1989 The Wonder, a comedy play by Susanna Centlivre Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a 2023 Nintendo Switch platforming game...
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  • The Stolen Heiress (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    Salamanca Doctor Outplotted is a 1702 comedy play by the English writer Susanna Centlivre. The original Lincoln's Inn cast included John Bowman as Governour...
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  • Gamester, a 1633 play by James Shirley The Gamester (Centlivre play), a 1705 play by Susanna Centlivre The Gamesters, a 1920 American silent film The Gamester...
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  • The Platonick Lady (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    The Platonick Lady is a 1706 comedy play by the British writer Susanna Centlivre. Staged at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket in November 1706, it...
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    shotputter and former World's Strongest Man Susanna Centlivre (c. 1667 to 1670 – 1 December 1723), born Susanna Freeman, was actress, and "the most successful...
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    Mountain as Fedelia. Volume 12. A Bold Stroke for a Wife by Mrs. Susanna Centlivre illustrated with Mrs Mary Stephens Wells as Mrs Lovely. All in the...
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  • Cavendish (1621–1669, England) Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673, England) Susanna Centlivre (c. 1667–1723, England) Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616, Spain) Linda...
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    Love Betrayed by William Burnaby (1703) Angelica in The Gamester by Susanna Centlivre (1705) Flippanta in The Confederacy by John Vanbrugh (1705) Semanthe...
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    asleep. The entire company slowly falls asleep, with the last being Susanna Centlivre (who had attacked Pope's translation of Homer before its publication)...
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  • Wycherley 1705: The Mistake by Sir John Vanbrugh; The Gamester by Susanna Centlivre 1706: The Recruiting Officer (play) – George Farquhar 1707: Essay...
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    de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632) December 1 – Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist, actress (b. 1669) December 2 – Philippe II, Duke...
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  • in The Biter by Nicholas Rowe (1704) Valeria The Basset Table by Susanna Centlivre (1705) Rose in The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar (1706) Florinda...
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  • The Cruel Gift (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    A Tragedy is a tragedy (with an unusual happy ending) written by Susanna Centlivre, first performed at Drury Lane in 1716 (and published in 1717). Nicholas...
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  • The Man's Bewitched (category Plays by Susanna Centlivre)
    The Man's Bewitched is a 1709 comedy play by the British writer Susanna Centlivre. It is known by the longer title The Man's Bewitch'd; or, The Devil...
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    The Beau's Duel by Susanna Centlivre (1702) The Governor of Cyprus by John Oldmixon (1702) The Stolen Heiress by Susanna Centlivre (1702) As You Find...
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