The Ornament of Action : Text and Performance in Restoration Comedy (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Preface; Note on references; 1. The text and the audience; 2. Performance: theatres and scenery; 3. Performance: actors and the cast; 4. Performance and the published text; 5. Text and performance (1): the comedies, 1691 to 1693; 6. Text and performance (2): Wycherley's The Plain-Dealer; 7. Text and performance (3): the comedies of Congreve; Appendices; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.