Poems and Fancies Margaret Cavendish

Plays in 1662 and 1668

Two volumes of Cavendish's dramatic works were printed. Plays (1662), printed by A. Warren (London) includes:

  • Loves Adventures
  • The Several Wits
  • Youths Glory, and Deaths Banquet
  • The Lady Contemplation
  • Wits Cabal
  • The Unnatural Tragedy
  • The Public Wooing
  • The Matrimonial Trouble
  • Nature's Three Daughters, Beauty, Love and Wit
  • The Religious
  • The Comical Hash
  • Bell in Campo
  • A Comedy of the Apocryphal Ladies
  • The Female Academy

Plays, Never Before Printed (1668) was published by Anne Maxwell (London):

  • The Sociable Companions, or the Female Wits
  • The Presence
  • Scenes (edited from The Presence)
  • The Bridals
  • The Convent of Pleasure
  • A Piece of a Play

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