Wits

For fans of Hamnet and Isola: a delightfully twisty epistolary revenge romp set in the world of Restoration theater

London, 1674. The Puritans are down, the plague is out, and the theaters are back in business.

Mariana Quinn and Thomasin Rivers are rival “Female Wits,” playwrights with a romantic past, competing for space on the London stage. When Thomasin’s play is plagiarized by the theater manager George Petherbridge, and Mariana finds herself subject to a scathing critique by fervent puri...