The Ornament of Action: Text and Performance in Restoration Comedy

List of illustrations Preface Note on references 1. The text and the audience 2. Performance: theatres and scenery 3. Performance: actors and the cast 4. Performance and the published text 5. Text and performance (1): the comedies, 1691 to 1693 6. Text and performance (2): Wycherley's The Plain-Dealer 7. Text and performance (3): the comedies of Congreve Appendices Notes Select Bibliography Index.