Front Matter
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Table of Contents
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List of illustrations
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction:: the politics of performance and the performance of politics
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[I Introduction]
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‘To the last drop of my blood’:: melodrama and politics in late Georgian England
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The platform and the stage:: the primary aesthetics of Chartism
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Bubbles of the day:: the melodramatic and the pantomimic
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Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and the legitimate/illegitimate divide
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Performance for imagined communities:: Gladstone, the National Theatre and contested didactics of the stage
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Women’s suffrage and theatricality
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[II Introduction]
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English pantomime and the Irish Question
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‘Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling’:: popular imperialism and the music hall ballet
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Drury Lane imperialism
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[III Introduction]
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‘Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power’:: politics and performance in 1820
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Sir Robert Peel as actor-dramatist
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The performance of protest:: the 1889 dock strike on and off the stage
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Class, performance and socialist politics:: the political campaigns of early labour leaders
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Index
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