Shakespeare in America : an anthology from the Revolution to now / James Shapiro, editor ; foreword by President Bill Clinton.
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Shapiro, James S., 1955- (redaktör/utgivare)
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- Clinton, Bill, 1946- (author of introduction, etc.)
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Alternativt namn: Clinton William Jefferson, 1946-
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Alternativt namn: Clinton, William J., 1946-
- ISBN 1598532952
- Publicerad: New York : Library of America, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
- Engelska xxxi, 724 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
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Serie: Library of America ; 251
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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 / 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.
- 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.
Ämnesord
- Teater och samhälle (sao)
- Intellektuellt liv (sao)
- Theater and society -- United States. (LCSH)
- Intellectual life (LCSH)
- Theater and society (LCSH)
- Förenta staterna (sao)
- United States -- Intellectual life. (LCSH)
Genre
- Analys och tolkning (saogf)
Personnamn
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- United States.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- United States.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Klassifikation
- PR2971.U6 (LCC)
- 822.33 (DDC)
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