Elizabeth Polwheele

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Elizabeth Polewheele (ca. 1651–ca. 1691), playwright, was one of the first women to write for the professional stage in London. Her comedy The Frolicks was performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre in 1671; it features Claribell, a witty Restoration heroine, and Rightwit, a rake.

[edit] Plays

• Elysium (lost)
• The Faithful Virgins (ca. 1670; manuscript)
• The Frolicks, or, The Lawyer Cheated (1671)

[edit] References

• Milhous, Judith. “Polewheele, E. (1651?–1691?).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. 16 Nov. 2006.
• Wynne-Davies, Marion. "Polwhele, Elizabeth (?1651-1691) English Restoration dramatist." Dictionary of English Literature, Bloomsbury, 1997.