Shakespeare in America
Subtitle: an anthology from the revolution to now
By: James Shapiro, editor ; foreword by President Bill Clinton
Series: The Library of America -- 251
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9781598532951
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Theater and society; Stage history; Appreciation; Criticism and interpretation; Influence; Intellectual life; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pausing American loyalist  -- Anonymous; title: Epilogue to Coriolanus  -- Jonathan M. Sewall; title: The tragic genius of Shakspeare: an ode  -- Peter Markoe; title: Letter to John Quincy Adams  -- John Adams; title: Stratford on Avon  -- Washington Irving; title: Prize ode  -- Charles Sprague; title: The Character of Desdemona  -- John Quincy Adams; title: Hazlitt's characters of Shakspeare  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: First impressions of Miss Cushman's Romeo  -- J. M. W.; title: Indians of North America  -- Maungwudaus; title: Account of the terrific and fatal riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House  -- Anonymous; title: Shakspeare, or, the Poet  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Hawthorne and his Mosses  -- Herman Melville; title: Ira Aldridge  -- William Wells Brown; title: Recollections of a gifted woman  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Drama's vitallest expression is the common day  -- Emily Dickinson; title: Address delivered at the opening of the New Theatre at Richmond  -- Henry Timrod; title: Letter to James H. Hackett  -- Abraham Lincoln; title: The killing of Julius Caesar localized  -- Mark Twain; title: Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration, April 23, 1864  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes; title: Letter to the National Intelligencer  -- John Wilkes Booth; title: The Coming storm  -- Herman Melville; title: Shylock, a burlesque  -- G. W. H. Griffin; title: Othello  -- Mary Preston; title: In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg  -- Frederick Wadsworth Loring; title: What lurks behind Shakspere's historical plays?  -- Walt Whitman; title: The art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet  -- William Winter; title: Shakespeare  -- William Dean Howells; title: From Between the acts: Antony and Cleopatra  -- Willa Cather; title: Shakespeare's Americanisms  -- Henry Cabot Lodge; title: A modern Lear  -- Jane Addams; title: The Hiartville Shakespeare Club  -- Belle Marshall Locke; title: The birthplace  -- Henry James; title: Autobiographical dictation  -- Mark Twain; title: Shakespeare: made in America  -- George Santayana; title: Out, Out  -- Robert Frost; title: Shakespeare's heroines as human beings  -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: Heart of the race  -- Charles Mills Gayley; title: Hamlet and his problems  -- T. S. Eliot; title: To Mark Anthony in heaven  -- William Carlos Williams; title: Shakespeares of 1922  -- Lorenz Hart and Morrie Ryskind; title: John Barrymore's Hamlet  -- Stark Young; title: Shakespeare for America  -- George F. Whicher; title: Shakespeare and American culture  -- Joseph Quincy Adams; title: The Macbeth murder mystery  -- James Thurber; title: Orson Welles's Julius Caesar  -- Sidney B. Whipple; title: Japanese Hamlet  -- Toshio Mori; title: Shakespeare in Harlem  -- Langston Hughes; title: Paul Robeson's Othello  -- Samuel Sillen; title: Laurence Olivier's Henry V  -- James Agee; title: Preface to G. I. Hamlet  -- Maurice Evans; title: Brush up your Shakespeare  -- Cole Porter; title: The abuse of greatness  -- Hollis Alpert; title: The immortal bard  -- Isaac Asimov; title: Shakespeare's last word: justice and redemption  -- John Berryman; title: Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin daddis  -- Lord Buckley; title: Carlus  -- Hyam Plutzik; title: General Macbeth  -- Mary McCarthy; title: After dark  -- Adrienne Rich; title: Orson Welles: there ain't no way  -- Pauline Kael; title: From Run-through  -- John Houseman; title: Bus soft ... real soft  -- Woody Allen; title: Caliban in blue  -- Walter McDonald; title: Cora Lee  -- Gloria Naylor; title: West Side Story  -- Dramatists Guild Landmark Symposium; title: The Shakespeare marathon  -- Frank Rich and Joseph Papp; title: Address to the Royal Society of Arts  -- Sam Wanamaker; title: Shakespeare in Iceland  -- Jane Smiley; title: Actors  -- Cynthia Ozick; title: Daily grind  -- B. J. Ward; title: From NETS -- Jen Bervin.