Curtain CallsI here and there oheard a Coxcomb cry, Ah, rottis a Womans Comedy. Thus Aphra Behn ushers in a new era for women in the British Theatre (Sir Patient Fancy, 1678). In the hundred years that were to followand exactly those years that Curtain Calls examineswomen truly took the theater world by storm. For each woman who chose a career in the theater world of the eighteenth century, there is a unique tale of struggle, insult, success, good or bad fortune,