A review by pixieauthoress
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix, Elizabeth Griffith, Susanna Centlivre

4.0

"The Innocent Mistress" - I think this is my favourite of the EN2004 plays so far. Our tutor told us to start reading it way in advance of the tutorial as it had a confusing plot, but I didn't find it too challenging once I remembered all of the characters' names. There were three storylines that interwove, but thankfully years of reading romance novels has taught me to deal with multiple plots! :) This was a very entertaining read, but it had a rather pessimistic view of marriage and commitment that made for an unsettling resolution to one of the sub-plots. 8/10