MICHAEL CORDNER is Ken Dixon Professor of Drama at the University of York, UK. He has published editions of plays by Farquhar, Etherege, Vanbrugh, Dryden, Lee, Otway, Southerne and Sheridan, and his most recent critical publications concern the relationship between Shakespearean editing and performance and English stage comedy. He also frequently directs plays from the early modern repertoire. PETER HOLLAND is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. From 1997 to 2002 he was Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, and P

• 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

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