The politics of Romantic theatricality, 1787-1832: the road to the stage

Introduction

Busby, Burletta, and Barnwell: Music, Stage and Audience

Dramatic topicality: Robert Merry's The Magician No Conjurer and the 1791 Birmingham Riots

Blackface and black mask: The Benevolent Planters versus Harlequin Mungo

Belles Lettres to Burletta: William Henry Ireland as fortune's fool

The Libertine Reclaimed: Burletta and the Cockney Presence

The Royal Amphitheatre and Olympic Tom and Jerry Burlettas

Moncrieff's Tom and Jerry and its Spin-Offs

Conclusion: The Canadian Tom and Jerry Murder.