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; Shakespeare, Heywood and London; John Milton and the revolution
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.
