Shakespeare in America : an anthology from the revolution to now /
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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| Other Authors / Creators: | Shapiro, James, 1955- editor. Clinton, Bill, 1946- writer of supplementary textual content. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, 2014. |
| Series: | Library of America ;
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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 Shakspeare'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 daddies / 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
- But 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.