Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Spectacle, Performance and Audience in Nineteenth-Century Theatre: 1. Introduction Louis James; 2. Was Jerrold's Black Ey'd Susan more popular than Wordsworth's Lucy? Louis James; 3. Word and image in Pixérécourt's melodrama: the dramaturgy of the strip-cartoon W. D. Howarth; 4. Joseph Bouchardy: a melodramatist and his public John McCormick; 5. The Music of melodrama David Mayer; 6. Popular theatre in Victorian Birmingham Douglas A. Reid; 7. Water drama Derek Forbes; 8. Equestrian drama and the circus Antony D. Hippisley Coxe; 9. Theare of war: the Crimea on the London stage 1854–5 J. S. Bratton; 10. Popular drama and the mummers' play A. E. Green; Part II. Politics and Performance in Twentieth-Century Drama and Film: 11. Introduction David Bradby; 12. Meyerhold and Eisenstein Nick Worrall; 13. Erwin Piscator's 1927 production of Hoppla, We're Alive Martin Kane; 14. Prolet Buehne: agit-prop in America Stuart Cosgrove; 15. Worker's theatre 1926–36 Raphael Samuel; 16. The October Group and the theatre under the Front Populaire David Bradby; 17. Only the stars survive: disaster movies in the seventies Nick Roddick; Part III. Problems and Prospects: 18. Introduction Bernard Sharratt; 19. The politics of the popular? - from melodrama to television Bernard Sharratt; Appendix; Select bibliography; General index; Index of titles of plays, films, sketches; Index of theatres, theatre companies and groups.