This section focuses on three case studies: Jean Genet’s The Balcony (1957), Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part I and II (1991), and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) (2015). Each play is set in specific historical turning points (respectively World War II, the AIDS Epidemic, and the American Civil War) that influence perceptions of the body through changes in labor, medical, and social practices. The three plays each consider how illusion, rhetoric, space, and time shape the appearance of the body. The plays also raise larger questions about the use of the body as visual evidence and a source for truth claims. Each case study offers specific styles and techniques that call attention to how bodies emerge in space and time and through presumptions about identity categories.