Blacker than hell creates : Pix rewrites Othello / Jacqueline Pearson -- Unmanned with thy words : regendering tragedy in Manley and Trotter / Rebecca Merrens -- In carnival world of Adam's garden : roving and rape in Behn's Rover / Dagny Boebel -- Closure and subversion in Behn's comedies / Peggy Thompson -- Lady Fulbank and poet's dream in Behn's Lucky Chance / Robert A. Erickson -- Tupping your rival's women : cit-cuckholding as class warfare in restoration comedy / J. Douglas Canfield -- Almahide still lives : feminine will and identity in Dryden's Conquest of Granada / Katherine M. Quinsey -- Resisting a private tyranny in two humane comedies / James E. Evans -- Way of word : telling differences in Congreve's Way of the World / Pat Gill -- Rape, voyeurism, and restoration stage / Jean I. Marsden -- Reading masks : the actress and the spectatrix in restoration Shakespeare / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Sticks and rags, bodies and brocade : essentializing discourses and the late restoration playhouse / Cynthia Lowenthal.