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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Entertainment, Mediation, and the Future of Empire

I DIVERSIONS

1 The Agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus: John Burgoyne’s
Remediated Pleasures

2 Out to America: Performance and the Politics of Mediated Space

II REGIME CHANGE

3 To Rise in Greater Splendor: John André’s Errant Knights

4 “THE BODY” of David Garrick: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, America,
and the Ends of Theatre

III CELEBRATIONS

5 Which Is the Man? Remediation, Interruption, and the Celebration
of Martial Masculinity

6 Days and Nights of the Living Dead: Handelmania

Coda: “In praise of the oak, its advantage and prosperity”

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