New World DramaIn 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 New Worldone that included indigenous peoples, diasporic Africans, and diasporic Europeans. In the raucous space of the theatre, the contradictions of