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Acknowledgments
I thank the librarians at the Austrian National Library, the Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, the Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University, and the Research Library of the Boston Public Library. Hubert Pramhas of Vienna was most helpful to me during my research there and afterward. My Suffolk colleague Jay Rosellini provided invaluable assistance with German translation and his own expertise. I thank Barbara Abrams, another Suffolk colleague, for her advice about eighteenth-century French cultural terminology. Kenneth Greenberg, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Suffolk University, generously approved a sabbatical and grants for research and travel that were essential to the completion of this work. The chair of the Suffolk English department, Anthony Merzlak, has always been forthcoming with professional support. I thank him and my English department colleagues for their