Correction

Jason Shaffer would like to make the following two corrections to his essay "Making 'an Excellent Die': Death, Mourning, and Patriotism in the Propaganda Plays of the American Revolution," which was published in the Spring 2006 issue of this journal:

First, following S. E. Wilmer in Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities, I mistakenly referred to a character from John Leacock's The Downfall of British Tyranny as "Clarissa Warren," the wife of General Joseph Warren. General Warren was a widower at the outbreak of the Revolution, however, and his deceased wife's name was Elizabeth. While Clarissa venerates Warren's valor in her scene, the husband she mourns in the play is not the General.

Second, I misidentified the character known as "Gardiner" in Hugh Henry Brackenridge's The Battle of Bunker's Hill. This character represents Colonel Thomas Gardner, who was wounded in the battle just as Brackenridge's character is, and later died of those injuries.