Authors in this volume EDWARD BATLEY and DAVID BRADBY: Introduction PART I JOHN MCGRATH: Theatre and democracy JANELLE REINELT: Performing justice for the future of our time DAVID WHITTON: Whatever happened to theatre populaire? The unfinished history of people's theatre in France MORAY McGOWAN: Staging the ‘Wende’: Some 1989 East German productions and the flux of history PART II CATERINA ALBANO: The starving body on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage SOPHIE LEMERCIER: The supernatural and the representation of justice in Shakespeare's theatre ANTHONY BROMHAM: ‘Is the law firm?’ Rewriting Middleton and Rowley's The old law for the 1990s MARK DARLOW: ‘Apprendre aux hommes à mourir’: The theatrical adaptations of Paul et Virginie ALAN BUSST: Moralizing and the stage: French Romanticism's uneasy marriage ANN DAVIES: Don Juan and Foucauldian sexual discourse: changing attitudes to female sexuality JAMES JORDAN: The bureaucratisation of bias: legal responses to theatre disturbance in the Weimar Republic MARIA DELGADO: Inscribing the invisible: Enrique Rambal and twentieth-century Spanish theatre MONTSERRAT ROSER I PUIG: Moral games and corrupting justice in Fernando Arrabal’s The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria ALEKS SlERZ: ‘The element that most outrages’: morality, censorship and Sarah Kane's Blasted BART MOORE-GILBERT: Justice and morality in the plays of Hanif Kureishi MARY LUCKHURST: The case of Theresa: Guernsey, the Holocaust and theatre censorship in the 1990s RICHARD BLAND: Still exposing capitalism? Performance and reception in East German cabaret STEFANIA TAVIANO: Dario Fo and Franca Rame in the United Kingdom