Introduction -- Classical Greek and Roman -- Electra from Electra / Sophocles (c. 415 BC) -- Polyxena from Hecuba / Euripides (c. 424 BC) -- Creusa from Ion / Euripides (c. 413 BC) -- Ismene from Thebans / Liz Lochhead (2003) after Sophocles and Euripides (5th century BC) -- Palaestra from Rudens / Plautus (c. 200 BC) -- Elizabethan and Jacobean -- Alice Arden from Arden of Faversham / Anon (1592) -- Margaret of Anjou from Henry III / William Shakespeare (1593) -- Julia from The two gentlemen of Verona / William Shakespeare (1593) -- Lady Anne from Richard III / William Shakespeare (1594) -- Adriana from The comedy of errors / William Shakespeare (1595) -- Lady Constance from King John / William Shakespeare (1596) -- Tamyra from Bussy D'Ambois / George Chapman (1604) -- Bellafront from The honest whore / Thomas Dekker (1604) -- Beatrice from The Dutch courtesan / John Marston (1604) -- Crispinella from The Dutch courtesan / John Marston (1604) -- Mother from A mad world, my masters / Thomas Middleton (1605) -- Lucretia Borgia from The devil's charter / Barnabe Barnes (1607) -- Hermione from The winter's tale / William Shakespeare (1610) --

Maria from The tamer tamed / John Fletcher (1619) - Guiomar from The custom of the country / John Fletcher (1619) -- Hippolyta from The custom of the country / John Fletcher (1619) -- Beatrice from The changeling / Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (1622) -- Leonora from The devil's law-case / John Webster (1623) -- Lady Alworth from A new way to pay old debts / Philip Massinger (1625) -- French and Spanish Golden Age -- Casilda from Peribanez / Lope de Vega (c. 1605-12) -- Célimène from The misanthrope / Molière (1666) -- Henriette from The learned ladies / Molière (1672) -- Phedra from Phedra / Jean Racine (1677) -- Restoration and eighteenth century -- Margery from The country wife / William Wycherley (1675) -- Charlotte from She ventures, and he wins / Ariadne (1695) -- Bassima from The royal mischief / Delariviere Manley (1696) -- Lamira from The fatal friendship / Catherine Trotter (1698) -- Jane from The tragedy of Jane Shore / Nicholas Rowe (1714) --

Millwood from The London merchant / George Lillo (1731) -- Miss Stirling from The Clandestine marriage David Garrick/George Coleman (1766) -- Lydia Languish from The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775) -- Mrs Dangle from The critic / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1779) -- Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Mrs Tiffany from Fashion, or Life in New York / Anna Cora Mowatt (1845) -- Mrs Alving from Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen (1881) -- Miss Julie from Miss Julie / August Strindberg (1888) -- Madame X from The stronger / August Strindberg (1889) -- Jean from Alan's wife / Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins (1893) -- Mrs Cheveley from An ideal husband / Oscar Wilde (1895) -- Yelena from Uncle Vanya / Anton Chekhov (1897) -- Alice from The dancer of death, Part 2 / August Strindberg (1901) -- Margaret from Fanny's first play / George Bernard Shaw (1911) -- Orinthia from The apple cart / George Bernard Shaw (1929) -- Bride from Blood wedding / Federico García Lorca (1933).