ABSTRACT
Mrs. Oscar Beringer, on a recent occasion, held forth on the claims of women to write for the stage. But the sex needed no apologist. There is no reason in the world why a woman should not be able to write a play as cleverly as she can produce a novel. Probably the first play written by a woman was the work of Mrs. Aphra Behn, who anticipated by two centuries the outbreak of Keynoteism. But it is only of recent years that women can be taken seriously to justify our passing a judgment on their dramatic work. Nor is it surprising that American women, or, at least, those with the breath of the Younger World on them, should have made the most progress. The Globe seems to favour women, for it is just a year since Miss Estelle Burney’s “Settled out of Court” was given at a matinée there.
