Mary Pix
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Standard Name: Pix, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Griffith
Married Name: Mary Pix
, writing and publishing at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, was the most prolific female playwright since
. Her comedies, full of fun and acute observation of human vagaries, depend more on stagecraft, situation, and plotting than on verbal wit, and are unusually sympathetic to the non-upper classes. As well as both comedies and tragedies,
wrote poems and a novel.