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
Summary
The theatre and drama of the late Georgian period have been the focus of a number of recent studies, but such work has tended to ignore its social and political contexts. Theatric Revolution redresses the balance by considering the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwise associated with the freedom of expression. Looking beyond the Royal theatres at Covent Garden and Drury Lane which have dominated most recent accounts of the period, this bookexamines the day-to-day workings of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays and shows that radicalized groups of individua
