Theories of comedy / David Galbraith
Roman comedy / Robert S. Miola
Italian stories on the stage / Louise George Clubb
Elizabethan comedy / Janette Dillon
Popular festivity / Franc̦ois Laroque
Forms of confusion / John Creaser
Love and courtship / Catherine Bates
Laughing at 'others' / Edward Berry
Comedy and sex / Alexander Leggatt
Language and comedy / Lynne Magnusson
Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender / Barbara Hodgdon
Matters of state / Anthony Miller
The experiment of romance / Michael O'Connell.