The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
by
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical emergence of a collective body in the colonized...