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Contents
INTRODUCTION
CLASSICAL GREEK AND ROMAN
Electra
from Electra by Sophocles (c. 415 BC)
Polyxena
from Hecuba by Euripides (c. 424 BC)
Creusa
from Ion by Euripides (c. 413 BC)
Ismene
from Thebans by Liz Lochhead (2003),
after Sophocles and Euripides (5th century BC)
Palaestra
from Rudens by Plautus (c. 200 BC)
ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN
Alice Arden
from Arden of Faversham by Anon (1592)
Margaret of Anjou
from Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare (1592)
Countess of Salisbury
from Edward III by William Shakespeare (1593)
Julia
from The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William
Shakespeare (1593)
Lady Anne
from Richard III by William Shakespeare (1594)
Adriana
from The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
(1595)
Lady Constance
from King John by William Shakespeare (1596)
Tamyra
from Bussy DâAmbois by George Chapman (1604)
Bellafront
from The Honest Whore by Thomas Dekker (1604)
Beatrice
from The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston (1604)
Crispinella
from The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston (1604)
Mother
from A Mad World, My Masters
by Thomas Middleton (1605)
Lucretia Borgia
from The Devilâs Charter by Barnabe Barnes (1607)
Hermione
from The Winterâs Tale by William Shakespeare (1610)
Maria
from The Tamer Tamed by John Fletcher (1611)
Guiomar
from The Custom of the Country by John Fletcher (1619)
Hippolyta
from The Custom of the Country by John Fletcher (1619)
Beatrice
from The Changeling
by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (1622)
Leonora
from The Devilâs Law-Case by John Webster (1623)
Lady Alworth
from A New Way to Pay Old Debts
by Philip Massinger (1625)
FRENCH AND SPANISH GOLDEN AGE
Casilda
from Peribanez by Lope de Vega (c. 1605-12)
CÊlimène
from The Misanthrope by Molière (1666)
Henriette
from The Learned Ladies by Molière (1672)
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