| Description |
xxxi, 724 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 251 |
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Library of America ; 251.
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| Summary |
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 -- Source other than Library of Congress. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-708) and index. |
| Contents |
The pausing American loyalist (1776) / Anonymous -- Epilogue to Coriolanus (1778) / Jonathan M. Sewall -- The tragic genius of Shakspeare : an ode (1787) / Peter Markoe -- Letter to John Quincy Adams (1805) / John Adams -- Stratford-on-Avon (1820) / Washington Irving -- Prize ode (1824) / Charles Sprague -- The character of Desdemona (1836) / John Quincy Adams -- Hazlitt's characters of Shakspeare (1845) / Edgar Allan Poe -- First impressions of Miss Cushman's "Romeo" (1846) / J.M.W. -- "Indians of North America" (1848) / Maungwudaus -- Account of the terrific and fatal riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House (1849) / Anonymous -- Shakspeare; or, The poet (1850) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Hawthorne and his Mosses (1850) / Herman Melville -- Ira Aldridge (1862) / William Wells Brown -- Recollections of a gifted woman (1863) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Drama's vitallest expression is the common day (1863) / Emily Dickinson -- Address delivered at the opening of the New Theatre at Richmond (1863) / Henry Timrod -- Letter to James H. Hackett (1863) / Abraham Lincoln -- The killing of Julius Caesar "localized" (1864) / Mark Twain -- Shakespeare, Tercentennial Celebration, April 23, 1864 / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Letter to the National Intelligencer (1865) / John Wilkes Booth -- "The coming storm" (1866) / Herman Melville -- "Shylock," a burlesque (c. 1867) / G.W.H. Griffin -- Othello (1869) / Mary Preston -- In the old churchyard at Fredericksburg (1870) / Frederick Wadsworth Loring -- What lurks behind Shakspere's historical plays? (1884) / Walt Whitman -- The art of Edwin Booth : Hamlet (1893) / William Winter -- Shakespeare (1895) / William Dean Howells -- From Between the acts (1894) : Antony and Cleopatra (1895) / Willa Cather -- Shakespeare's Americanisms (1895) / Henry Cabot Lodge -- A modern Lear (1895) / Jane Addams -- The Hiartville Shakespeare Club (1896) / Belle Marshall Locke -- The birthplace (1903) / Henry James -- Autobiographical dictation (1909) / Mark Twain -- Shakespeare : made in America (1915) / George Santayana -- 'Out, out--' (1916) / Robert Frost -- Shakespeare's heroines as human beings (1916) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Heart of the race (1916) / Charles Mills Gayley -- Hamlet and his problems (1919) / T.S. Eliot -- To Mark Anthony in heaven (1920) / William Carlos Williams -- Shakespeares of 1922 / Lorenz Hart and Morrie Ryskind -- John Barrymore's Hamlet (1922) / Stark Young -- Shakespeare for America (1931) / George F. Whicher -- Shakespeare and American culture (1932) / Joseph Quincy Adams -- The Macbeth murder mystery (1937) / James Thurber -- Orson Welles's Julius Caesar (1937) / Sidney B. Whipple -- Japanese Hamlet (1939) / Toshio Mori -- Shakespeare in Harlem (1942) / Langston Hughes -- Paul Robeson's Othello (1943) / Samuel Sillen -- Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1946) / James Agee -- Preface to G.I. Hamlet (1947) / Maurice Evans -- Brush up your Shakespeare (1948) / Cole Porter -- The abuse of greatness (1953) / Hollis Alpert -- The immortal bard (1954) / Isaac Asimov -- Shakespeare's last word : justice and redemption (1955) / John Berryman -- Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin' daddies (1955) / Lord Buckley -- Carlus (1960) / Hyam Plutzik -- General Macbeth (1962) / Mary McCarthy -- After dark (1966) / Adrienne Rich -- Orson Welles : there ain't no way (1967) / Pauline Kael -- From Run-through (1972) / John Houseman -- But soft ... real soft (1975) / Woody Allen -- Caliban in blue (1976) / Walter McDonald -- Cora Lee (1982) / Gloria Naylor -- West Side Story (1985) / Dramatists Guild Landmark Symposium -- The Shakespeare marathon (1989) / Frank Rich and Joseph Papp -- Address to the Royal Society of Arts (1989) / Sam Wanamaker -- Shakespeare in Iceland (1996) / Jane Smiley -- Actors (1998) / Cynthia Ozick -- Daily grind (2002) / BJ Ward -- From NETS (2004) / Jen Bervin. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- United States.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
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Theater and society -- United States.
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United States -- Intellectual life.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- United States.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (DE-588)118613723
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Rezeption (DE-588)4049716-1
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United States (DE-588)4078704-7
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- analys och tolkning.
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Teater och samhälle.
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Intellektuellt liv.
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| Added Author |
Shapiro, James, 1955- editor.
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Clinton, Bill, 1946- writer of supplementary textual content.
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| ISBN |
9781598532951 (hardcover) |
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1598532952 (hardcover) |
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9781598534627 (paperback) |
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1598534629 (paperback) |
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