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Preface - Introduction - What is Restoration Comedy? - Jonsonian Moralists and Caroline Decorum - 'A Lantskip of these Kingdoms' - 'The Scene, London; the Time Equal to that of the Presentation' - From 'Decorum' to 'Nature': Etherege and the Wits - William Wycherley - 'The Wits' Garden': Court Forms and Libertine Philosophies - Professional Dramatists - Thomas Otway - Aphra Behn - Marriage and the Comedy of the Nineties: Dryden's Amphitryon and Crowne's The Married Beau - The Etheregean Revival - Congreve - The Last Restoration Comedies: Farquhar, Centlivre and Steele - Conclusion: Newgate Pastoral; John Gay and 'The Beggars Opera' - Index