Players, playwrights, playhouses: investigating performance, 1660-1800

Abstract

List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Series Introduction: Redefining British Theatre History P.Holland Introduction: Expanding Horizons M.Cordner PART I: DRAMA, THEATRE AND HISTORY Theatre History, 1660-1800: Aims, Materials, Methodology R.D.Hume Sleeping with the Enemy: Aphra Behn's The Roundheads and the Political Comedy of Adultery M.Cordner Shadowing Theatrical Change P.R.Backscheider Reading Theatre History from Account Books J.Milhous PART II: CONTROLLING THE THEATRE Jeremy Collier and the Politics of Theatrical Representation L.A.Freeman Reconsidering Theatrical Regulation in the Long Eighteenth Century M.J.Kinservik PART III: THEATRE BEYOND LONDON Theatre for Nothing M.Dobson Mixed Marriage: Irish Playwrights and the Hybrid Audience S.Cannon Harris Country Matters: Irish Waggery and the British Theatrical Tradition H.Burke PART IV: REPRESENTATIONS Universality, Early Modernity, and the Quagmire of Representing Race M.Choudhury Hearing the Dead: The Sound of David Garrick P.Holland The Visuality of the Theatre S.West Index