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Title Page
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Of Heirs and Bold Purloiners: Thomas Shadwell's Alternative Models of Literary Inheritance in The Lancashire Witches and The Squire of Alsatia
2. "Can My Imagination Feel?": Reading, Theatricality, and the Mind-Body Problem in Aphra Behn's The Luckey Chance and The Emperor of the Moon
3. Textual Timelessness, Performative Time: Posterity in William Congreve's Love for Love and The Way of the World

4. "Take This Sad Ballad, Which I Bought at Fair": Pastoral Performance and Print Capitalism in John Gay's The What D'Ye Call It and The Beggar's Opera
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index