Table of Contents:
  • From British colony to independent nation: refashioning identity
  • Federalis and democratic republican theatre: partisan drama in antionalist trappings
  • Independence for whom? American Indians and the ghost dance
  • The role of workers in the nation: the Paterson Strike Pageant
  • Staging rebellion in the 1960s
  • Reconfiguring patriarchy: suffragette and feminist plays
  • Imaging and deconstructing the mutlicultural nation in the 1990s