New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, 2014.;©2014
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Part of the series Library of America 251;Library of America 251.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-708) and index.
- 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.
- 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 — S
Subjects:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Appreciation — United States.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Influence.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Criticism and interpretation — History.
- Theater and society — United States.
- United States — Intellectual life.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Stage history — United States.
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