Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley's works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contemporaneous reviews.

William D. Brewer is professor of English at Appalachian State University, USA, and the author of Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters (2015).

Acknowledgments; Introduction: The World as it Goes; Note on the Text; The World as It Goes: A Comedy; Reviews of The World as It Goes; Reviews of Second Thoughts Are Best, a Revised Version of The World as It Goes; Index.