Re-crafting tragedy: gender and genre in seventeenth-century drama -- Early Stuart women writers: Elizabeth Cary -- The interregnum: Margaret Cavendish's dramatic experiments -- The restoration commercial stage: Frances Boothby and Aphra Behn -- Late Stuart writers I: Mary Pix and Delarivier Manley -- Late Stuart writers II: Catharine Trotter and the historical tragedy -- The last of the Stuarts: Jane Wiseman and Anne Finch.
