Mary Pix

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Mary Pix (born Mary Griffith in 1666 in Nettlebed , Oxfordshire ; died May 17, 1709 in London ) was an English playwright.

Life

Mary Griffith was likely a daughter of the Vicar and Rector of the Royal Latin School in Buckingham , Buckinghamshire . In 1684 she married George Pix, a master tailor from Hawkhurst , Kent . They had two sons, the first of whom died in the first year of life in 1690. In 1696 she published her first and only novel, The Inhumane Cardinal; or, Innocence Betrayed , a Tragedy and a Comedy. Five plays followed, as well as four more for which no author is given, but which are attributed to her. Her first success already led to her and the playwrights Mary Delariviere Manley and Catherine Trotter in the anonymously published satirical theater scene The Female Wits or; The Triumvirate of Poets were mocked. Shortly thereafter, she got into a public affair when her play The Deceiver Deceived was plagiarized by actor George Powell for the Drury Lane Theater , against which she resisted with the support of author William Congreve .

Pix's dramas are based on the plays of Aphra Behn . They are about marriage, sexual violence against women and infidelity. Her pieces were later forgotten. In 2018 the Royal Shakespeare Company produced an evening of theater based on their play The Beau Defeated under the title The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich .

Works

  • The Inhumane Cardinal; or, Innocence Betrayed . Novel. 1696
  • Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks . 1696
  • The Spanish Wives . 1696
  • The Innocent Mistress . London: J. Orme, 1697
    • in: Melinda C. Finberg (Ed.): Eighteenth century women dramatists . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001 ISBN 0-19-282729-4 , pp. 1-74. Introduction pp. Xi – Xvii
  • The Deceiver Deceived . 1697
  • Queen Catharine; or, The Ruines of Love . 1698
  • The False Friend; or, the Fate of Disobedience . 1699
  • The Beau Defeated; or, the Lucky Younger Brother . 1700
  • The double distress . 1701
  • The Czar of Muscovy . Attributed to 1701 Pix
  • The Different Widows; or, Intrigue All-A-Mode . Attributed to 1703 Pix
  • Violenta; or, The Rewards of Virtue, Turn'd from Boccace into Verse . Poetry. 1704
  • Zelmane; or, the Corinthian Queen . Attributed to Pix in 1705, but controversial
  • The Conquest of Spain . Attributed to 1705 Pix
  • The Adventures in Madrid . Attributed to 1706 Pix

literature

  • Frederick M. Link: English drama, 1660-1800: a guide to information sources . Detroit, me. : Gale, 1976 ISBN 0-8103-1224-7 , p. 269
  • Nancy Cotton: Women playwrights in England: c. 1363-1750 . Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1980 ISBN 0-8387-2381-0
  • Nancy Cotton: Pix, Mary , in: Janet Todd (Ed.): Dictionary of British women writers . London: Routledge, 1989 ISBN 0-415-03625-9 , pp. 539f.
  • Constance Clark: Three Augustan women playwrights . New York: Lang, 1986 ISBN 0-8204-0309-1 (Trotter, Pix, Manley)
  • Yolanda Caballero Aceituno: Useful Contexts: the Instrumentality of Foreigners in the Transmission of. Transnational Feminist Ideas in Some Plays by Delariviere Manley, Mary Pix and Catharine Trotter , in: Rüdiger Ahrens (Ed.): The construction of the other in early modern Britain: attraction, rejection, symbiosis . Heidelberg: Winter, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8253-6083-2 , pp. 47-71

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at RSC, 2018@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rsc.org.uk  
personal data
SURNAME Pix, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1666
PLACE OF BIRTH Nettlebed , Oxfordshire
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1709
Place of death London