Spectacular men: race, gender, and nation on the early American stage

Introduction: "advancing the interests of private and political virtue": the stakes of the early American stage

"The imitation of life": how men act

American actors/acting American

"O patriotism!/ thou wond'rous principle of God-like action!": the changing meanings of the Revolution

Love and death: staging indigenous masculinity

Tyrants, republicans, and rebels: performing Roman masculinities

Epilogue: from sons of liberty to wage slaves.