Katherine of Sutton (d. 1376)
Katherine of Sutton (d. 1376)
British playwright and abbess. Name variations: Abbess of Barking. Died 1376.
The 1st known English woman playwright, was abbess of Barking Abbey (1363–76); wrote religious plays in Latin, based on Easter liturgy, which are found in J. B. L. Tolburst (ed.), The Ordinale and Customary of the Benedictine Nuns of Barking (1977–78) as well as K. Young's Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (1910) and The Drama of the Medieval Church (1933).
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