Lothario's CorpseLotharios Corpse unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britains eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While standard theater histories emphasize libertine dramas gradual disappearance from the nations acting repertory following the dispersal of Stuart rule in 1688, Daniel Gustafson traces its persistent appeal for writers and performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent liberal subject and