1. THEINFLUENCE OF LLOYDRICHARDS
2. HIGH-BROW,LOW-BROW, ONE-BROW,AND NO-BROW: REVISITING “CLASS”AND WOMEN INNINETEENTH-CENTURY U.S. THEATRE
3. TASTEFUL PUBLICS AND PUBLIC TASTES: THEATRECRITICISM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OFCOMMUNITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON
4. “DEBUNKING THE DEBUNKERS”: GILBERTSELDES,MODERNISM,AND POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT
5. INVOKING THE DRUIDS: JEZBUTTERWORTH’SJERUSALEM ANDTHEOLOGICAL POLITICS
6. GETTING TO KNOWYOU(ANDBY THE WAY, ARE YOUGOING TO HELLWHEN YOUDIE?): EVANGELICALOUTREACH TOPOST-CHRISTIAN PUBLICS
7. “APORTLY SAVAGE,PLUMP AND PIGEON-TOED”: JOHNBROUGHAM’SPO-CA-HON-TAS AND THE DIVERGENTTHEATREGOING PUBLICS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEWYORK
8. GOINGPUBLIC WITH GRIEF: COUPLING MOURNING WITH MILITANCY
9. AUTOBIOGRAPHICALMEMORY,MUSEUMS, ANDOBJECTIVITY IN FEDERICO LEÓN’S MUSEOMIGUELÁNGELBOEZZIO
10. FOREIGN TEXTS AND DOMESTIC POLITICS: MAKINGTORTUREPUBLIC INCONTEMPORARY EGYPTIANDRAMA
11. WEIMAR SEXUAL POLITICS: HOMOSEXUAL DESIRE IN THE EARLYPLAYS OFBERTOLTBRECHT
12. LET US SALLY FORTH INTO THIS PERVERSE WORLD ... 1 THEMARQUIS DE SADE,PERFORMANCE, AND THE DECADENTIMAGINATION
13. “PLAYINGMISSIONARY IN HARLEM?”: RACE,PUBLICPOLICY,AND BIRTHCONTROL CRUSADERS IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Public Theatres & Theatre Publics presents sixteen focused investigations that connect theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. The organizing critical lens of publics and publicness allows for the chapters to speak to one another other across time periods and geographies, inviting readers to think about how performing in public shapes and circulates concepts of identity, notions of taste or belonging, markers of class, and possibilities for political agency. Each essay presents a theorized case study that grapples with fundamental questions of how individuals perform in public contexts. The essays, written by a cross-section of prominent and emerging theatre and performance scholars, contribute new discussions and understandings of how theatre and performance work, as well as how publics, publicity, and modes of publicness have been constructed and contested over the last three centuries and in multiple national contexts including the US, Britain, France, Germany, Argentina and Egypt.