Raising the dead: the Essex Rebellion of 1601 and Shakespeare's King Richard II
Passion and revolt: Thomas Otway, Venice preserv'd and the 1795 Westminster Riot
"The drama's laws the drama's patrons give": The Covent Garden Old Price riots of 1809
"The most important occasion of the century": Victor Hugo and the 1830 Battle of Hernani
Theatre's bloodiest night: the New York Riots of 1849
Stand-off at Primrose Hill: the Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1864
Representing a nation: the 1907 Playboy of the Western World Riot at the Abbey Theatre Dublin
"You have disgraced yourselves again": The Plough and The Stars at the Abbey Theatre Dublin, 1926
The French Republic under siege: Coriolanus in Paris February 1934
Dishonour and sacred space: Behzti in Birmingham, 2004.
