Hrosvitha, a German secular canoness, as well…

Hrosvitha, a German secular canoness, as well as a dramatist and poet who lives and worked at Gandersheim Abbey in modern-day Bad Gandersheim, Lower Saxony, established by the Ottonian dynasty, is the first known German woman writer.

She writes devotional epics in Latin and also six prose comedies on Christian themes modeled on the plays of the Roman comic dramatist Terence.

(The exceptionally well-crafted dialogue in her morality plays suggests that she may intend them for dramatic production.)