Introduction / Rebecca Herissone
Sources and transmission / Robert Thompson
Understanding creativity / Alan Howard
Performance practices / Stephen Rose
Theatre culture / Andrew Pinnock
Politics, occasions and texts / Andrew R. Walkling
Society and disorder / Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Performance history and reception / Rebecca Herissone.
The Ashgate research companion to Henry Purcell. ISBN 9780754666455. Published by Ashgate Pub. in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.