Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. I. The Decline of a Tradition 1
4. II. The Reign of Bad Taste 22
5. III. Vestigial Reminders 36
6. IV. Gilbert, Robertson and a New Social Consciousness 64
7. V. Dramatic Production 95
8. VI. Patrician Evidences in a Middle-Class Age 117
9. VII. Return of the Comedy of Manners 151
10. VIII. Twentieth-Century Tendency and Achievement 195
11. IX. A Word in General 238
12. Bibliography 244
13. Index 264