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An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as “A ‘Birthright into a New World’: Representing the Town on Brome’s Stage” in Comparative Drama 45, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 35–63. © 2011 by Western Michigan University. Used with permission. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared as “‘The Air We Breathe’: Warfare in Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer” in College Literature 43, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 397–426. © 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press and West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Used with permission.

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