One of the most popular writers for the 18th century stage.
Elizabeth Inchbald was an actress, a novelist, and one of the most successful playwrights of the eighteenth century. In a writing career that spanned thirty years, nineteen of her comedies and farces were performed on the London stage. Her one overtly political work ‘The Massacre’, written in 1792, was withdrawn on the advice of William Godwin for fear it would prove too controversial. As the play gets its UK premier at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, Jenni Murray discusses the life and legacy of Elizabeth Inchbald.
