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Shawn McGhee (PhD, Temple University) is author of No Longer Subjects of the British King: The Political Transformation of Royal Subjects to Republican Citizens, 1774-1776. His main areas of interest include the politics of eighteenth-century British North America and political identity formation. He is an educator and adjunct professor of history in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area.
"Cato: A Tragedy" was a famous 18th Century play - supposedly the favorite play of George Washington himself! What connection did it have to the history of America - and to the theater history of Philadelphia?