Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
THE PROLOGUE
ACT I: FRANCIS
1 St Francis
2 A Stuttering Start
3 Army Camp
ACT II: FRANKIE
4 Meet Scruffy Dale
5 Variety Bandbox
6 The One-Man Situational Comedy
INTERMISSION: THE YEARS OF DARKNESS
7 Ever-Decreasing Circles
8 Dennis
9 The Breakdown
ACT III: THE COMEBACK
10 Re. Establishment
11 Musicals
12 Movies
ACT IV: THE CULT
13 Carry On, Plautus
14 The Closeted Life
15 Cult Status
THE EPILOGUE
Keep Reading
List of Performances
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Notes
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
