Players, Playwrights, Playhouses

1. Introduction: Expanding Horizons
Michael Cordner

Part 1. Drama, Theatre, and History

2. Theatre History, 1660–1800: Aims, Materials, Methodology
Robert D. Hume

3. Sleeping with the Enemy: Aphra Behn’s The Roundheads and the Political Comedy of Adultery
Michael Cordner

4. Shadowing Theatrical Change
Paula R. Backscheider

5. Reading Theatre History from Account Books
Judith Milhous

Part 2. Controlling the Theatre

6. Jeremy Collier and the Politics of Theatrical Representation
Lisa A. Freeman

7. Reconsidering Theatrical Regulation in the Long Eighteenth Century
Matthew J. Kinservik

Part 3. Theatre beyond London

8. Theatre for Nothing
Michael Dobson

9. Mixed Marriage: Sheridan, Macklin, and the Hybrid Audience
Susan Cannon Harris

10. Country Matters: Irish ‘Waggery’ and the Irish and British Theatrical Traditions
Helen Burke

Part 4. Representations

11. Universality, Early Modernity, and the Contingencies of Representing Race
Mita Choudhury

12. Hearing the Dead: the Sound of David Garrick
Peter Holland

13. The Visuality of the Theatre
Shearer West

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature, general, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature, Performing Arts