The ambivalent political messaging of printed drama in 1650s Britain
Poetics as political policy: the republic's early response to Royalist drama, 1649-1651
"A floating unbalanced peopld": drama and the instability of the republican state, 1651-1653
They "always speak things as they would have them": the failures of aspirational Royalist drama, 1651-3
Royalist drama and the legitimacy of authority in the mid-1650s
Republics and ethics: the moral probity of Protectoral entertainments, 1653-58
Conclusion: the hijacking of republican poetics.