The Innocent Mistress

by Mary Pix

Genres: Plays

Unknown Binding

About the author

Mary Pix (1666 – 17 May 1709) was an English novelist and playwright. As an admirer of Aphra Behn and colleague of Susanna Centlivre, Pix has been called "a link between women writers of the Restoration and Augustan periods".

Reviews

[Cynda Reads · Rating 2 out of 5]

I struggled through four acts of a five-actplay. I could not continue. The problem is not the play itself. It seems like a delights when acted on stage. I saw a teaser video of the play on YouTube and just knew I would enjoy reading the play. I was wrong.

The play is a play and not a novel, so I had difficulty when stage traditions of the 18th century and the novel traditions that I am familiar with do not match up.

Maybe someday I will have an opportunity to watch the play performed on stage or on YouTube.

Read from Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists edited by Melinda Finberg.

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love Restoration plays, I really do, but I always struggle to rate the reading of them highly because I just get so confused with all the characters! I'm sure this would be great on stage.