Bücher der Reihe Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance

Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, this work examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. It is of interest to scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, and cultural studies.

Hester Santlow was one of the contributers to the development of dance on the London stage. This work examines Santlow's personal life, including her relationships with the politician James Craggs the Younger and the Drury Lane actor-manager Barton Booth. It also traces her life after retirement.

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. This title charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective.