Similarities Between Mary Pix And Susanna Centlivre

Patsy Fowler compares female playwrights Mary Pix and Susanna Centlivre by arguing they were Arphra Behns successors and through their respective works they sought to reform cultural expectations and attitudes about women. She asserts that “[w]hile producing popular plays that both appealed to their audiences and stayed within the conventional cultural boundaries of accepted drama, these two playwrights were attempting subtly to modify and reform established attitudes concerning accepted behavior for and the control of women” (Fowler 49). Specifically, Fowler argues that Centlivre uses The Basset Table to reveal the follies of English society and popularize early feminist notions through characters like Valeria, Lady Reveller, and Alpiew. Centlivre