Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. Customs and Practices: The Regulation of the Theatres; 2. The Suppression of the Royalty Theatre in the East End of London; 3. Theatrical Oligarchies: The Role of the Examiner of Plays; 4. Theatrical Subcultures: Fireworks, Freemasonry, and Philip de Loutherbourg; 5. Political Microcultures: The Censorship of Thomas Dibdin's Two Farmers; 6. The Theatricalization of British Popular Culture: Queen Caroline and the Royal Coburg Theatre; 7. The Theatricalization of British Popular Culture: A General Historical Anthropology.
  • 8. Political Dramas: Harlequin Negro and Plots and Placemen9. Crime, Theatre, and Political Culture: The Mysterious Murder and The Murdered Maid; 10. Theatre of Subversion: Carlile's Rotunda and Captain Swing; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.