Introduction: theatre, performance and social assemblage theory -- Theatrical assemblages and theatrical markets -- Georgian performance and the assemblage model -- Theatrical celebrity as social assemblage: from Garrick to Kean -- Celebrity networks: Kean and Siddons -- A working theatrical assemblage: 1790s -- Representations of naval conflict -- Theatrical assemblage populations: the Turkish ambassador's visits to London playhouses, 1794 -- Historicizing the theatrical assemblage: Marie Antoinette and the theatrical queens -- The regulatory assemblage: the Roman actor and the politics of self-censorship -- Conclusion.
