Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Series introduction v
3. Contents vii
4. List of illustrations ix
5. Contributors x
6. Acknowledgements xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Conceptualising performance, theorising politics 17
9. 1 ‘To the last drop of my blood’ 21
10. 2 The platform and the stage 44
11. 3 Bubbles of the day 59
12. 4 Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capitaland the legitimate/illegitimate divide 75
13. 5 Performance for imagined communities 96
14. 6 Women’s suffrage and theatricality 111
15. Part II: Politics in performance 129
16. 7 English pantomime and the Irish Question 131
17. 8 ‘Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling’ 152
18. 9 Drury Lane imperialism 174
19. Part III: The performance of politics 195
20. 10 ‘Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power’ 199
21. 11 Sir Robert Peel as actor-dramatis 216
22. 12 The performance of protest 237
23. 13 Class, performance and socialist politics 259
24. Index 276