Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Theater and the republic - Ginger Strand -- - Archiving culture - Rosemarie K. Bank -- - Taming America as actress - Kim Marra -- - American vaudeville, American empire - Leigh Woods -- - Most American thing in America - Charlotte Canning -- - Pageant is the thing - David Krasner -- - Drama of transformation - Ann Larabec -- - Speaking a language that we both understand - Josephine Lee -- - Performing Aztlán - Tiffany Ana López -- - Echoes from the black (w)hole - Harry Elam and Alice Rayner -- - Marking change - Robert H. Vorlicky -- - Queering the nation - David Savran -- - American stages (afterpiece) - Jeffrey D. Mason