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List of illustrations and tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Note on the textIntroduction Reconstructing the nation Tracing tragedy Research aims and structureI. The reimposition of the tragic canon: introductionChapter 1: The tragic inheritance The eighteenth century The RevolutionChapter 2: Rewriting the past Attempts at adaptation Institutional rewritings Tracing tragedy in performance The legacy of the afterlivesChapter 3: Heroic conquerors Censorship PropagandaII. New Napoleonic tragedies: introductionTragédieChapter 4: Composition, performance, reception: pulling back the curtain on censorship and propaganda To the Comédie-Française The bureaucratic censorship system Back at the theatre In printChapter 5: The ambiguity of antiquity Ancient Greece: Pyrrhus, 1807, Polyxène, 1804, and Hector, 1809 Ancient Rome: Vitellie, 1809, Tibère, Bélisaire, Scipion, ou l'Africain and Camille, ou le Capitole sauvéChapter 6: Heroes of the East Cyrus, 1804 Ninus II, 1813 Artaxerce, 1808 Omasis, ou Joseph en Egypte, 1806Chapter 7: Fear of the foreign Staging foreign history: Mahomet II, 1811, Pierre le Grand, 1804, and Don Pèdre, ou le Roi et le laboureur, 1802 Foreign threats: Jeanne Gray, Marie Stuart, L'Orphelin polonois, Gênes sauvée and WallsteinChapter 8: Meddling in the Middle Ages The Middle Ages on the stage: Brunehaut, 1810, and Les Templiers, 1805 Unperformed medieval tragédies nationales: Charlemagne, Clovis, Baudouin empereur, La Dèmence de Charles VI, La Régence de Charles VII and Arthur de BretagneChapter 9: Testing tragédies nationales Les Etats de Blois, 1810 and 1814 La Mort de Henri IV, 1806 Tippo-Saëb, 1813ConclusionAppendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Bibliography Index.
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