Frances Boothby
Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–1670) was an English playwright, the first woman to have a play produced in London. Her tragicomedy Marcelia, or, The Treacherous Friend (published 1670) was performed by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal in 1669. The plot involves romantic difficulties and deceit. It is her only extant work and little else is known of her.
References[]
- Derek Hughes, Boothby, Frances (fl. 1669–1670). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. 16 November 2006
- Marion Wynne-Davies, Boothby, Frances (1669) English Restoration dramatist. Dictionary of English Literature. Bloomsbury, 1997
External links[]
- Marguérite Corporaal, Love, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by Seventeenth-Century English Women Dramatists. Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) 3.1-24
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