A mezzotint of Susanna Centlivre by Peter Pelham (1720) originally painted by D. Fermin
Born
Susanna Freeman
1669 (baptised)
Died
1 December 1723
Nationality
English
Susanna Centlivre (c. 1669 (baptised) – 1 December 1723), born Susanna Freeman, and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century".[1] Centlivre's "pieces continued to be acted after the theatre managers had forgotten most of her contemporaries."[2] During a long career at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she became known as the second woman of the English stage, after Aphra Behn.
^Carraro, Laura Favero. "Susanna Centilivre", The Literary Encyclopedia, 20 October 2001, accessed 16 February 2012.
SusannaCentlivre (c. 1669 (baptised) – 1 December 1723), born Susanna Freeman, and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet,...
of the affectation of kind-heartedness, and little efficient aid." SusannaCentlivre wrote a successful play, The Busie Body, which was first performed...
tradition of breeches roles and en travesti. Actress and playwright SusannaCentlivre appeared in breeches roles around 1700. The first popular male impersonator...
Gamester or The Gamester may refer to: The Gamester (Centlivre), a 1705 play by SusannaCentlivre The Gamester (Moore), a 1753 play by Edward Moore The...
18th century: Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, and SusannaCentlivre. A broad study of most never-reprinted Restoration comedies has been...
Manley (who wrote as "Melpomene" and "Thalia") and includes pieces by SusannaCentlivre ("perhaps," according to Blain et al.), Sarah Fyge Egerton ("Erato"...
1817 with equal success, as Donna Violenta in The Wonder (1714) by SusannaCentlivre. It seems from most of the newspaper reports of her acting that she...
Lying Lover by Richard Steele 1703, Belliza – Love's Contrivance by SusannaCentlivre 1703, Lucia – The Old Mode and the New by Thomas d'Urfey 1704, Lady...
A Bold Stroke for a Wife is SusannaCentlivre's 18th-century satirical English play first performed in 1718. The plot expresses the author's unabashed...
Salamanca Doctor Outplotted is a 1702 comedy play by the English writer SusannaCentlivre. The original Lincoln's Inn cast included John Bowman as Governour...
Imrie and adapted into a musical from The Custom of the Country by SusannaCentlivre. Also in 2014, she was Artist-in-Residence at the University of California...
The Platonick Lady is a 1706 comedy play by the British writer SusannaCentlivre. Staged at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket in November 1706, it...
similar to this film. The story of Ek Phool Char Kante was inspired by SusannaCentlivre's play A Bold Stroke for a Wife. The film is a light-hearted comic...
asleep. The entire company slowly falls asleep, with the last being SusannaCentlivre (who had attacked Pope's translation of Homer before its publication)...
de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632) December 1 – SusannaCentlivre, English dramatist, actress (b. 1669) December 2 – Philippe II, Duke...
Love Betrayed by William Burnaby (1703) Angelica in The Gamester by SusannaCentlivre (1705) Flippanta in The Confederacy by John Vanbrugh (1705) Semanthe...
(1701) Bellmein in The Beau's Duel by SusannaCentlivre (1702) Eugenio in The Stolen Heiress by SusannaCentlivre (1702) Virotto in The Governour of Cyprus...
shotputter and former World's Strongest Man SusannaCentlivre (c. 1667 to 1670 – 1 December 1723), born Susanna Freeman, was actress, and "the most successful...
Tunbridge Walks by Thomas Baker (1703) Bellmie in Love's Contrivance by SusannaCentlivre (1703) Frederick in The Old Mode and the New by Thomas d'Urfey (1703)...
A Tragedy is a tragedy (with an unusual happy ending) written by SusannaCentlivre, first performed at Drury Lane in 1716 (and published in 1717). Nicholas...
vicar's wife (d. 1752) Susanna Verbruggen, English actress (d. 1703) probable – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d. 1740) SusannaCentlivre, English actress...
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