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Shakespeare in America : an anthology from the revolution to now, James Shapiro, editor ; foreword by President Bill Clinton
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- Summary
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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 --
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxxi, 724 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781598532951
- Label
- Shakespeare in America : an anthology from the revolution to now
- Title
- Shakespeare in America
- Title remainder
- an anthology from the revolution to now
- Statement of responsibility
- James Shapiro, editor ; foreword by President Bill Clinton
- Subject
-
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- United States
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation | History
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- United States
- Theater and society -- United States
- United States -- Intellectual life
- Language
- eng
- 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 --
- 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
- Assigning source
- Source other than Library of Congress
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Dewey number
- 822.3/3
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR2971.U6
- LC item number
- S49 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1955-
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Shapiro, James
- Clinton, Bill
- Series statement
- Library of America
- Series volume
- 251
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Theater and society
- Theater and society
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
- United States
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/writerofsupplementarytextualcontext
- Yi13BGVGGJc
- Label
- Shakespeare in America : an anthology from the revolution to now, James Shapiro, editor ; foreword by President Bill Clinton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-708) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 852221406
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xxxi, 724 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781598532951
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)852221406
- Label
- Shakespeare in America : an anthology from the revolution to now, James Shapiro, editor ; foreword by President Bill Clinton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-708) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 852221406
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xxxi, 724 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781598532951
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)852221406
Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- United States
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation | History
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- United States
- Theater and society -- United States
- United States -- Intellectual life
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