1. John Tosh, “The Old Adam and the New Man: Emerging Themes in the History of English Masculinities, 1750–1850,” in English Masculinities, 1660–1800, ed. Tim Hitchcock and Michèle Cohen (London: Longman, 1999), 222.
2. Consider in contrast: J. S. Bratton, ed., Acts of Supremacy: The British Empire and the Stage, 1790–1930 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991);
3. Jim Davis, “British Bravery, or Tars Triumphant: Images of the British Navy in Nautical Melodrama,” New Theatre Quarterly 4 (1988): 122–143;
4. Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities (London: Routledge, 1994).
5. Douglas Jerrold, Black Eyed Susan in Nineteenth Century Plays, ed. George Rowell (London: Oxford University Press, 1953).