Frances Boothby

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Frances Boothby ( bl. 1669-1670) was an English writer.

Life

Boothby is considered to be the first female writer to stage a play in London . The theater company Lord Chamberlain's Men performed their play "Marcelia" in 1669 at the Theater Royal Drury Lane . The audience liked the play and it was released the following year.

Works

  • Marcelia or the treacherous friend. A tragicomedy . Cademan & Widdowes, London 1670.

literature

  • Pilar Cuder-Domínguez: The restoration commercial stage. Frances Boothby and Aphra Behn . In: Diess .: Stuart women playwrights. 1613-1713. (Studies in performance and early modern drama). Ashgate Press, Farnham 2011, ISBN 978-0-7546-6713-1 , pp. 55-80.
  • Derek Hughes: Frances Boothby. In: Henry C. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 5, OUP, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X .
  • Marion Wynne-Davies: Frances Boothby. In: The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature. (Bloomsbury Reference). Bloomsbury Books, London 1997, ISBN 0-7475-3343-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Boothby, Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century or 18th century