A Second Act for a 17th c. Woman Playwright

Twenty years ago, when I began thinking about writing Wicked Company focusing on a group of eighteenth century "Petticoat Playwrights" whose works were performed to great success at London's Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres, even most English majors had never heard of the playwright Aphra Behn, whose dates are thought to be 1640-1689.
Now recognized as "one of the first women to earn her living by her pen," the woman on your right has finally come into her own with several... Read More...