Introduction: a complex casuality of neglect
"He drank from the poisoned cup": temperance reform in nineteenth-century America
"Nine-tenths of all kindness": literature, the theatre and the spirit of reform
"Every odium within one word": early American temperance drama and British prototypes
Reform comes to Broadway: temperance on America's mainstream stages
"In the halls": temperance entertainments following the Civil War
Epilogue: "theatrical 'dry rot'"; or what price the Anti-Saloon League?
Appendix: nineteenth-century temperance plays.
