Susanna Centlivre was only 2nd to Shakespeare on 18c London stage [audio 11min]

Susanna Centlivre was one of the most performed playwrights of the 18th century, with over 1200 performances of her plays being staged. Only Shakespeare was performed more. She was also a political playwright, and a supporter of the Whig cause. Her play The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret is now being performed in London, at The White Bear Theatre, for the first time in 150 years. Dr Gilli Bush-Bailey, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama at Royal Holloway and Dr Jane Milling, from the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter join presenter Jenni Murray to explore Susanna Centlivre's life and works. Bush-Bailey is author of Treading the Bawds: Actresses and Playwrights of the Late-Stuart Stage (Manchester University Press); Milling is currently writing a biography of Susanna Centlivre.