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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Suggested further reading -- General introduction -- Introduction to volume II: theatre and drama criticism -- Part 1 Theatrical debates -- 1.1 Melodrama and the shock of the new -- 1 'Theatre', Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, November 1802 -- 2 'The theatres', The Satirist -- or Censor of the Times, 19 February 1832 -- 3 'Monster melo-drame', The Satirist -- or Monthly Meteor, 1 January, 1808 -- 4 D-G [George Daniels], 'Remarks' on A Tale of Mystery, from Cumberland's British theatre -- 5 'Surrey theatre', The Mirror of the Stage: or, New Dramatic Censor 13 January, 1823 -- 6 Walter Scott, extract from 'An essay on the drama' -- 7 Joanna Baillie, extract from A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind -- 8 Henry Barton Baker, 'The old melodrama' -- 1.2 The decline of the drama, and the national theatre -- 9 Edward Lytton Bulwer, 'The drama' -- 10 Extracts from the Evidence from the 1832 Select Committee Report: Committee recommendations -- Evidence from John Payne Collier -- Evidence from Douglas Jerrold -- Evidence from William Thomas Moncrieff -- 11 D. J. [Douglas Jerrold], 'The rights of dramatists' -- 12 Vivian, [George Henry Lewes] 'Dreary lane' -- 13 [George Henry Lewes] 'Vivian in tears' -- 14 'Why I don't write plays', Pall Mall Gazette, August 31, 1892 -- 15 'Why I don't write plays', Judy, 28 September, 1892 -- 16 Effingham Wilson, A house for Shakespere: A proposition for the nation -- 17 William Archer & -- Granville Barker, 'Preface', in A national theatre. scheme and estimates -- 18 Henry Arthur Jones, 'The future of English drama' -- 1.3 The woman question -- 19 'Women as dramatists', All the Year Round, 29 September, 1894 -- 20 'Women as playwrights', The Sketch, 8 June, 1898.
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