1. Locating and Performing Error
2. Error Control in Eighteenth-Century German and French Acting Theory
3. Acting, Error, and the Art of Lying in Lessing’s Work
4. Encyclopedias of Error: Diderot’s Medicalized Bodies and Communication
5. Beyond Sin: Physiologies of Error in Schiller and La Mettrie
6. Legal Fallibility and the Drama of Evidence in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist
7. Conclusion.