Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: citizenship and theatre
2. Athens. Democracy and chorality
The Frogs
Plato and Aristotle 3. Florence, Rome and Machiavelli. Machiavelli's political works
Cicero
Terence's Andria
The Mandrake and the Society of the Trowel
'The Sunflower' in a politician's garden
Coda : Goldoni, Ayckbourn and the comic genre
4. From Coventry to London. Christian fraternity
The Weavers' Pageant in Coventry
Elizabethan London : Shakespeare and Heywood
John Milton and revolutionary tragedy
5. Geneva. Rousseau versus Voltaire : Geneva
Rousseau : The Letter to d'Alembert
The battle for a public theatre
Conclusion : two ideals
6. Paris and the French Revolution. Brutus and the active citizen audience
Tragedy as a school for citizens : the career of M. J. Chenier
The revolutionary festival
Diderot and bourgeois realism
7. The people, the folk, and the modern public sphere. Collectivism in pre-war Germany
The Indian People's Theatre Association
In search of the public sphere
Epilogue : Washington's monuments to citizenship.