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Victoria Echegaray-Mitar
Victoria Echegaray-Mitar holds a PhD in Philological Studies with a focus on Literature and Culture in English from the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). Her research interests include textual criticism and bibliography as well as women writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. She is a member of the Restoration Comedy Project.
Susanna Centlivre’s The Beau’s Duel; or, A Soldier for the Ladies (1702)
The Beau’s Duel; or, A Soldier for the Ladies (1702) is Susanna Centlivre’s first comedy. It premiered soon after Queen Anne’s coronation amid preparations for the War of the Spanish Succession. This work features many of the elements of Centlivre’s skillful playwriting that would later establish her as one of the most popular dramatists through to the nineteenth century.