Kristina Straub is Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.Misty Anderson is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Daniel O’Quinn is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

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• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Performing Drama, Performing Culture Theatrical Biographies Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700John Dryden and William Davenant, The Enchanted Island or The TempestWilliam Wycherley, The Country Wife George Etherege, The Man of Mode John Dryden, All For Love Aphra Behn, The Widdow Ranter John Van Brugh, The Relapse Managing Entertainment, 1700-1760William Congreve, The Way of the World Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body John Rich, The Necromancer, or Harlequin Doctor Faustus and John Thurmond, Harlequin Doctor Faustus John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera Henry Fielding, The Author’s Farce George Lillo, The London Merchant Samuel Foote, The Minor (1760) Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions, 1760-1800David Garrick, The Jubilee Richard Cumberland, The West Indian Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal Hannah Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem George Colman, Inkle and Yarico Elizabeth Inchbald, Everyone Has His Fault

Kristina Straub is Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.Misty Anderson is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Daniel O’Quinn is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

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• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Performing Drama, Performing Culture Theatrical Biographies Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700John Dryden and William Davenant, The Enchanted Island or The TempestWilliam Wycherley, The Country Wife George Etherege, The Man of Mode John Dryden, All For Love Aphra Behn, The Widdow Ranter John Van Brugh, The Relapse Managing Entertainment, 1700-1760William Congreve, The Way of the World Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body John Rich, The Necromancer, or Harlequin Doctor Faustus and John Thurmond, Harlequin Doctor Faustus John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera Henry Fielding, The Author’s Farce George Lillo, The London Merchant Samuel Foote, The Minor (1760) Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions, 1760-1800David Garrick, The Jubilee Richard Cumberland, The West Indian Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal Hannah Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem George Colman, Inkle and Yarico Elizabeth Inchbald, Everyone Has His Fault