Elizabeth Woodrough is Lecturer in French, specialising in French literature of the seventeenth century, University of Exeter. Keith Cameron is Professor in French and Renaissance Studies, University of Exeter.

• A dedicatory essay to the memory of Liz Howe; some sexual consequences of the arrival of actresses on the public stage in England, 1660-1700; women theatre professionals in 17th-century France; the French Astrea; Mme de Villedieu woman and dramatist extraordinaire; French romanticism and the actresses, Frau Gottsched and Frau Neuber; shadow playwrights of the Weimar Republic - Berta Lask, Ilse Langner, Marieluise Fleisser; women playwrights on the British stage 1918-1986; women and theatre in Italy.

Elizabeth Woodrough is Lecturer in French, specialising in French literature of the seventeenth century, University of Exeter. Keith Cameron is Professor in French and Renaissance Studies, University of Exeter.

• A dedicatory essay to the memory of Liz Howe; some sexual consequences of the arrival of actresses on the public stage in England, 1660-1700; women theatre professionals in 17th-century France; the French Astrea; Mme de Villedieu woman and dramatist extraordinaire; French romanticism and the actresses, Frau Gottsched and Frau Neuber; shadow playwrights of the Weimar Republic - Berta Lask, Ilse Langner, Marieluise Fleisser; women playwrights on the British stage 1918-1986; women and theatre in Italy.