An edition of Shakespeare in America
(2014)
Shakespeare in America
an anthology from the revolution to now
by James Shapiro
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This anthology traces the surprising story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own through a wide range of genres. The writers included range from the 1800s to the present day, and offer testimony to Shakespeare's profound and enduring influence.
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Theater and society, Stage history, Appreciation, Criticism and interpretation, Influence, Intellectual life, History, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, appreciation, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, influence, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, stage history, United states, intellectual lifePlaces
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Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the revolution to now
2014
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1598532952 9781598532951
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Table of Contents
The pausing American loyalist -- Anonymous
Epilogue to Coriolanus -- Jonathan M. Sewall
The tragic genius of Shakspeare: an ode -- Peter Markoe
Letter to John Quincy Adams -- John Adams
Stratford on Avon -- Washington Irving
Prize ode -- Charles Sprague
The Character of Desdemona -- John Quincy Adams
Hazlitt's characters of Shakspeare -- Edgar Allan Poe
First impressions of Miss Cushman's Romeo -- J. M. W.
Indians of North America -- Maungwudaus
Account of the terrific and fatal riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House -- Anonymous
Shakspeare, or, the Poet -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hawthorne and his Mosses -- Herman Melville
Ira Aldridge -- William Wells Brown
Recollections of a gifted woman -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Drama's vitallest expression is the common day -- Emily Dickinson
Address delivered at the opening of the New Theatre at Richmond -- Henry Timrod
Letter to James H. Hackett -- Abraham Lincoln
The killing of Julius Caesar localized -- Mark Twain
Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration, April 23, 1864 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Letter to the National Intelligencer -- John Wilkes Booth
The Coming storm -- Herman Melville
Shylock, a burlesque -- G. W. H. Griffin
Othello -- Mary Preston
In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg -- Frederick Wadsworth Loring
What lurks behind Shakspere's historical plays? -- Walt Whitman
The art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet -- William Winter
Shakespeare -- William Dean Howells
From Between the acts: Antony and Cleopatra -- Willa Cather
Shakespeare's Americanisms -- Henry Cabot Lodge
A modern Lear -- Jane Addams
The Hiartville Shakespeare Club -- Belle Marshall Locke
The birthplace -- Henry James
Autobiographical dictation -- Mark Twain
Shakespeare: made in America -- George Santayana
Out, Out -- Robert Frost
Shakespeare's heroines as human beings -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Heart of the race -- Charles Mills Gayley
Hamlet and his problems -- T. S. Eliot
To Mark Anthony in heaven -- William Carlos Williams
Shakespeares of 1922 -- Lorenz Hart and Morrie Ryskind
John Barrymore's Hamlet -- Stark Young
Shakespeare for America -- George F. Whicher
Shakespeare and American culture -- Joseph Quincy Adams
The Macbeth murder mystery -- James Thurber
Orson Welles's Julius Caesar -- Sidney B. Whipple
Japanese Hamlet -- Toshio Mori
Shakespeare in Harlem -- Langston Hughes
Paul Robeson's Othello -- Samuel Sillen
Laurence Olivier's Henry V -- James Agee
Preface to G. I. Hamlet -- Maurice Evans
Brush up your Shakespeare -- Cole Porter
The abuse of greatness -- Hollis Alpert
The immortal bard -- Isaac Asimov
Shakespeare's last word: justice and redemption -- John Berryman
Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin daddis -- Lord Buckley
Carlus -- Hyam Plutzik
General Macbeth -- Mary McCarthy
After dark -- Adrienne Rich
Orson Welles: there ain't no way -- Pauline Kael
From Run-through -- John Houseman
Bus soft ... real soft -- Woody Allen
Caliban in blue -- Walter McDonald
Cora Lee -- Gloria Naylor
West Side Story -- Dramatists Guild Landmark Symposium
The Shakespeare marathon -- Frank Rich and Joseph Papp
Address to the Royal Society of Arts -- Sam Wanamaker
Shakespeare in Iceland -- Jane Smiley
Actors -- Cynthia Ozick
Daily grind -- B. J. Ward
From NETS -- Jen Bervin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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