A pioneering 3.5 hour educational DVD, which presents the first recorded versions of six plays by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73). Premiere productions of Lady Contemplation (1662), The Several Wits (1662), The Religious (1662), Youths Glory and Deaths Banquet (1662), The Female Academy (1662), The Convent of Pleasure (1668), with critical and production commentary. Winner of the 2006 Media Award of the international Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.