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Who was Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim?
Page One Playwright Emma Horwitz based her play MARY GETS HERS, our first production since 2019, on a 10th-century play by a classic writer who is seldom produced nowadays—so we commissioned playwright (and Hrotsvitha fan) Bailey Williams to tell us all about her!
What is absolutely certain about the playwright Hrosvitha of Gandersheim (an abbey in what is today known as Germany) is that she was a secular canoness (meaning, a member of a religious community who takes vows of obedience and celibacy, but not poverty) who was born around 935 and died sometime between 975-1002.
She was almost certainly a noblewoman who moved to the abbey later in life. Hrosvitha (or Hrotsvit or Roswitha, but we’ll stick with the original) is a name she may or may not have given herself meaning “a mighty voice” or “a mighty shout.”
What is also certain about her is that she is one of the first female dramatists, forgotten to history until the 15th