Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 From British colony to independent nation: refashioning identity -- Early dramatic propaganda: loyalty to King and country -- Transitional plays -- College dialogues -- Loyalist propaganda plays -- Dramatic propaganda for an independent national identity -- Summary -- 2 Federalist and Democratic Republican theatre: partisan drama in nationalist trappings -- Bunker-Hill -- André -- Female Patriotism -- The Glory of Columbia -- Summary -- 3 Independence for whom? American Indians and the Ghost Dance -- Summary -- 4 The role of workers in the nation The Paterson Strike Pageant -- The preparation of the Paterson Strike Pageant -- The staging of the pageant -- The rhetoric of the pageant -- Fiction or reality -- Evaluating the success of the pageant -- Legacy of the Paterson Strike Pageant -- Summary -- 5 Staging social rebellion in the 1960s -- Black Nationalist theatre -- El Teatro Campesino -- Anti-war theatre -- 6 Reconfiguring patriarchy: suffragette and feminist plays -- Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women -- Summary -- 7 Imaging and deconstructing the multicultural nation in the 1990s -- Anna Deavere Smith and the warring tribes -- Tony Kusher and a utopian vision -- Houston and Aoki undermining normative cultural taxonomies -- Coatlicue and Gómez-Peña - transnational identities -- Summary -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 From British colony to independent nation: refashioning identity -- 2 Federalist and Democratic Republican theatre: partisan drama in nationalist trappings -- 3 Independence for whom? American Indians and the Ghost Dance -- 4 The role of workers in the nation: the Paterson Strike Pageant -- 5 Staging social rebellion in the 1960s -- 6 Reconfiguring patriarchy: suffragette and feminist plays.

7 Imaging and deconstructing the multicultural nation in the 1990s -- Select bibliography -- Plays/dialogues/performances/videos -- Manuscript collections -- Serials/newspapers -- Articles -- Books -- Index.