Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater

Review of Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer. University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp. The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214 pp. Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean. Edited by Jeffrey M. Leichman and Karine Banal-Giroux. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment; Liverpool University Press, 2021. 392 pp.