ABSTRACT
This essay explores the notion of truth in biofictional accounts of early modern women authors as that notion applies to dialogue (what is “on the nose” and what not) and to plot as well as character development (what is “jumping the shark” and what not). The essay first focuses on a series of professional solo performances of Love Arm’d written by Karen Eterovich about the seventeenth-century author Aphra Behn. It then goes on to consider in the same way a filmed student performance of my play that imagines a meeting of Margaret Cavendish and Virginia Woolf, Margaret Cavendish, Virginia Woolf, and the Cypriot Goddess Natura.
