| Contents |
Introduction / Catie Gill -- What do the servants know? / Paddy Lyons -- Flinging the book away: books, reading and gender on the Restoration stage / Jacqueline Pearson -- Coffee-houses and Restoration drama / Juan A. Prieto-Pablos -- Sex and tyranny revisited: Waller's The maid's tragedy and Rochester's Valentinian / Sandra Clark -- Sex, tyranny and the problem of allegiance: political drama during the Restoration / Warren Chernaik -- The adaptation of seventeenth-century Spanish drama to the English stage during the Restoration period / Jorge Braga Riera -- The female wits: women writers at work / Jane Milling -- "Jilting jades"? perceptions of female playgoers in the Restoration, 1660-1700 / Fiona Ritchie -- Revolution and the moral reform of the stage: the case of Durfey's The marriage-hater matched (1692) / María José Mora and Manuel J. Gómez-Lara. |
