Dr. Diana Solomon, historian

Diana Solomon is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater: Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print, co-editor of Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice, and co-author, with the Multigraph Collective, of Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation, She has published articles on Restoration actresses, closet drama, eighteenth-century audiences, mad songs, Don Quixote, anecdotes, and Shakespeare in the eighteenth century, and is currently at work on a book project about the eighteenth-century English theatre audience’s taste in comedy. Hear Ms. Solomon discuss Restoration Actress Nell Gwynn here.