Pt. 1. Drama, theatre, and history. theatre history, 1660-1880 : aims, materials, methodology / Robert D. Hume ; Sleeping with the enemy : Aphra Behn's The roundheads and the political comedy of adultery / Michael Cordner ; Shadowing theatrical change / Paula R. Backscheider ; Reading theatre history from account books / Judith Milhous
Pt. 2. Controlling the theatre. Jeremy Collier and the politics of theatrical representation / Lisa A. Freeman ; Reconsidering theatrical regulation in the long eighteenth century / Matthew J. Kinservik
Pt. 3. Theatre beyond London. Theatre for nothing / Michael Dobson ; Mixed marriage : Sheridan, Macklin, and the hybrid audience / Susan Cannon Harris ; Country matters : Irish 'waggery' and the Irish and British theatrical traditions / Helen Burke
Pt. 4. Representations. Universality, early modernity, and the contingencies of representing race / Mita Choudhury ; Hearing the dead : the sound of David Garrick / Peter Holland ; The visuality of the theatre / Shearer West.