The Complete Plays of Frances Burney: Volume 1: Comedies. Volume 2: Tragedies by Frances Burney

The Complete Plays of Frances Burney: Volume 1: Comedies. Volume 2: Tragedies

Frances Burney

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In the plays, as in her novels, Burney satirizes the social conventions and pretensions of her day. The Witlings (1779), her first play, is a biting satire on the Bluestockings; it was never performed, however, for fear of a possible scandal. The ...

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