James Armstrong, Playwright

Today is the 214th birthday of Charles Dickens, which is as good a time as any to mention that my review of The Plays of Charles Dickens  ra...

Elizabeth Farren began her career as an actress, and ended up Countess of Derby. Along the way, her life was a pretty wild ride. She was bor...

Today, I presented my paper on Olympe de Gouges and Ira Aldridge online as a part of the annual conference of the North American Society fo...

Elizabeth Inchbald made her playwriting debut with The Mogul Tale in 1784, but her 1788 play Animal Magnetism  had a longer-lasting influen...

I have no affection for cigarettes. When I was growing up, both of my parents smoked, and wanting to be like them, I wanted to smoke, too. O...

The Irish actress Sarah Smith was supposed to be the next big thing in the early nineteenth century. Unfortunately, the m...

Elizabeth Inchbald's first play was a light farce called The Mogul Tale . One might be tempted to call is a lighter-than-air farce, sin...