Introduction / Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs
Historical contexts. Working in the theater : women playwrights, 1660-1750 / Jane Milling
Regendering the Restoration stage : women and theater, 1660-1720 / George E. Haggerty
Women spectators, playwrights, and performers and the Restoration stage / Jacqueline Pearson
Women and playwriting, 1750-1800 / Catherine Burroughs
Individual playwrights. Aphra Behn in the contemporary theater / Nancy Copeland
Mary Pix, the London middle class, and progressive Whig ideology / Elizabeth Kubek
Embodying Centlivre's comic vision : A bold stroke and The wonder in the classroom / Misty G. Anderson
Performance and philosophy in the work of Catharine Trotter Cockburn / Roxanne Kent-Drury
The other Elizabeth Griffith / Betty Rizzo
Frances Sheridan : a case study for mid-eighteenth century comedy / Cami D. Agan
Hannah More's reformation of romantic theater / Patricia Demers
Hannah Cowley, gender identity, and A bold stroke for a husband / Betsy Bolton
To write with authority : Elizabeth Inchbald's prefaces to the British theatre / Nora Nachumi
Joanna Baillie and the theme of trial / Victoria Myers
The playwright-novelist. Frances Brooke's The excursion and eighteenth-century women's theater / Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty
"The stage not answering my expectations" : the case of Eliza Haywood / Catherine Ingrassia
Teaching Evelina as a dramatic text / Francesca Saggini
Class, gender, and inheritance in Burney's A busy day and The woman-hater / Gillian Skinner
Elizabeth Inchbald's Revolutionary writings / Anna Lott
Comparative approaches. Gender, race, and party politics in the tragedies of Behn, Pix, and Manley / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
Disguise, fantasy, and misrecognition in The belle's stratagem and Fantomina / Tassie Gwilliam
Comparing early and late plays / Kathleen Leicht
She stoops to stratagem : a comparative approach to eighteenth-century comedy / Emily Hodgson Anderson
Classroom strategies. Using production to teach women playwrights / Marie E. McAllister
Cultural studies in the classroom : Behn's The rover / Laura J. Rosenthal
Performance theory : attending to the monkey wrench in Centlivre's The busie body / Ellen MacKay
Pre- and postrealist dramaturgy : women writers, silence, speech, and trauma / Thomas C. Crochunis
Contexts for teaching Margaret Cavendish's Bell in campo / Vimala C. Pasupathi
To whom does the New World belong? teaching Behn's The widow ranter / Cynthia Richards
Teaching Behn's The rover / Anita Pacheco
Centlivre and the stage sodomite / Melinda C. Finberg
On using Thelma and Louise to teach Centlivre's The wonder / Jones DeRitter
Teaching Burney's The witlings / Marjean D. Purinton
Scarcity and surplus : teaching Inchbald's Every one has his fault / Daniel O'Quinn
Imagining a course : teaching women dramatists / Jean I. Marsden.