Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Theater-Finance Nexus
1. "Virtue Is as Much Debased as Our Money": Generic and Economic Instability in Love’s Last Shift
2. Recoining the Repertory: Prologues, Epilogues, and Crisis
3. Women at the Theater-Finance Nexus: Susanna Centlivre as Playwright-Adventurer
4. Defrauding the Public: Spectacle and Speculation in Steele’s Theatre and The Conscious Lovers
5. "His Title, Not His Play, We Set to Sale": Literary Property in the Aftermath of the South Sea Bubble
Coda: The Theater-Finance Nexus in Later Eighteenth-Century London
Notes
Bibliography
Index