Mary Pix
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, 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.
- BirthName: Mary Griffith
- Married: Pix; Mrs. Mary PixShe gave her name thus on title-pages.