Table of Contents: Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: viewing pleasure
1. The theatre apparatus and masochistic spectatorship
2. Tancrède and tout montrer
3. Spectacle, artifice and genre
4. Masochism and the Sadean tableau
5. Limits of a visual theatre
6. Reading pleasure
7. A theatre of the sublime
Conclusion
Appendix: a chronology of Sade’s plays
Bibliography
Index