Acknowledgments

Introduction
ANNA BATTIGELLI

1 Laughter from on High: The Arts of Contempt in
Restoration England
STEVEN N. ZWICKER

2 Staging Davenant; or, Macbeth, the Musical
AMANDA EUBANKS WINKLER

3 The Arts of Memory in Absalom and Achitophel:
Dryden’s Response to Milton and Marvell
PAUL HAMMOND

4 Peacocks and Rainbows: Visual Spectacle and
Allegorical Performance in Albion and Albanius
ANDREW R. WALKLING

5 “The Dyrham Decades”: The Cultural Connections
of an English Country House, 1690–1720
DAVID HOPKINS

6 Domenico Scarlatti: “Jesting with Art”
CEDRIC D. REVERAND II

7 Queen Anne’s Other Women
PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER

8 Anne Donnellan: Friend of the Arts
ELLEN T. HARRIS

9 Responding to Emma in 1816: Reviewers, Readers,and “Opinions”
PETER SABOR

10 Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart:
Eighteenth-Century Poetry across Time and Form
MELISSA SCHOENBERGER

Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index