The Busybody is the most popular comedy by the eighteenth-century
playwright Susanna Centlivre. The play centres on two couples
trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians,
and in a battle of wits, playing with many conventions from theatre
traditions across the continent, a conclusion is eventually
reached. Like her predecessor Aphra Behn, Centlivre was immensely
successful in her day, drawing huge crowds to extended runs of her
numerous plays, but the stabbing male pens of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries decried her work as being louche and dangerous,
and her name slowly sunk into obscurity. This edition, published
with William Hazlitt's prefatory note and extra material on
Centlivre's life and writing, seeks to highlight the dexterity with
which she took on the stage.
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