DAVID WORRALL is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures, 1773-1832 (2006) and co-editor, with Steve Clark, of Historicizing Blake (1994), Blake in the Nineties (1999) and Blake, Nation and Empire (2006).

'...a book positively bursting with fascinating new material...both an intriguing and rewarding foray into the plebeian culture of the minor London playhouses.' David O'Shaughnessy, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin& Review

• Preface Introduction Busby, Burletta and Barnwell: Music, Stage and Audience Dramatic Topicality: Robert Merry's The Magician No Conjurer and the 1791 Birmingham Riots Black Face and Black Mask: The Benevolent Planters Versus Harlequin Mungo Belles Lettres to Burletta: William Henry Ireland as Fortune's Fool The Libertine Reclaimed : Burletta and the Cockney Presence The Royal Amphitheatre and Olympic Tom and Jerry Burlettas Moncrieff's Tom and Jerry and its Spin-Offs Conclusion: The Canadian Tom and Jerry Murder Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Index