New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849. By Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014; 354 pp.; illustrations. $94.95 cloth, $26.95 paper, e-book available; The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North. By Douglas A. Jones, Jr. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2014; 218 pp.; illustrations. $70.00 cloth, $32.50 paper, e-book available