Shakespeare in America : an anthology from the Revolution to now / James Shapiro, editor ; foreword by President Bill Clinton.
2014
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Title
Shakespeare in America : an anthology from the Revolution to now / James Shapiro, editor ; foreword by President Bill Clinton.
Published
New York : Library of America, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Description
xxxi, 724 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Series
Library of America ; 251.
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.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-708) and index.
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' 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 / BJ Ward
From NETS / Jen Bervin.
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' 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 / BJ Ward
From NETS / Jen Bervin.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State).
Item Details
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PR2971.U6 S49 2014