Meredith Conti is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. A historian of nineteenth-century theatre and performance, Conti’s work has appeared in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (2015).

• List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part One: Performing Consumption. Chapter One - Rosy Cheeks and Red Handkerchiefs: Performing Camille’s Consumption Before, During, and After the Contagionist Turn. Chapter Two - Foreign Invaders: The Transatlantic Consumptives of Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. Part Two: Performing Drug Addiction. Chapter Three - Early Dramaturgies of Drug Addiction in Stage Adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Sherlock Holmes. Chapter Four - Master, Martyr, Monster: The Addict Archetypes of Richard Mansfield and William Hooker Gillette. Part Three: Performing Mental Illness. Chapter Five - The Madwoman in the Theatre: Normalizing the Disordered Female Mind in Ellen Terry’s Lyceum Repertoire. Chapter Six - Abortive Masculinity, Social Decay, and Neuroticism in Henry Irving’s Mad Roles. Conclusion. Index

Meredith Conti is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. A historian of nineteenth-century theatre and performance, Conti’s work has appeared in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (2015).

• List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part One: Performing Consumption. Chapter One - Rosy Cheeks and Red Handkerchiefs: Performing Camille’s Consumption Before, During, and After the Contagionist Turn. Chapter Two - Foreign Invaders: The Transatlantic Consumptives of Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. Part Two: Performing Drug Addiction. Chapter Three - Early Dramaturgies of Drug Addiction in Stage Adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Sherlock Holmes. Chapter Four - Master, Martyr, Monster: The Addict Archetypes of Richard Mansfield and William Hooker Gillette. Part Three: Performing Mental Illness. Chapter Five - The Madwoman in the Theatre: Normalizing the Disordered Female Mind in Ellen Terry’s Lyceum Repertoire. Chapter Six - Abortive Masculinity, Social Decay, and Neuroticism in Henry Irving’s Mad Roles. Conclusion. Index

Meredith Conti is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. A historian of nineteenth-century theatre and performance, Conti’s work has appeared in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (2015).

• List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part One: Performing Consumption. Chapter One - Rosy Cheeks and Red Handkerchiefs: Performing Camille’s Consumption Before, During, and After the Contagionist Turn. Chapter Two - Foreign Invaders: The Transatlantic Consumptives of Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. Part Two: Performing Drug Addiction. Chapter Three - Early Dramaturgies of Drug Addiction in Stage Adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Sherlock Holmes. Chapter Four - Master, Martyr, Monster: The Addict Archetypes of Richard Mansfield and William Hooker Gillette. Part Three: Performing Mental Illness. Chapter Five - The Madwoman in the Theatre: Normalizing the Disordered Female Mind in Ellen Terry’s Lyceum Repertoire. Chapter Six - Abortive Masculinity, Social Decay, and Neuroticism in Henry Irving’s Mad Roles. Conclusion. Index