Scripted by whom? 1820 and theatres of rebellion

John Gardner examines theatrical responses to the Cato Street Conspiracy, including Byron’s Marino Faliero (1821), Robert Shaw’s Cato Street (1970), Stewart Conn’s Thistlewood (1975), Hector MacMillan’s The Rising (1973), and James Kelman’s Hardie and Baird: The Last Days (1990). He also examines Tanika Gupta’s play for BBC Radio 4, Betrayal: The Trial of William Davidson (2001).