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3. Apr. 2014 · Buy Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (LOA #251) (Library of America) Illustrated by Various, Shapiro, James, Clinton, Bill (ISBN: 9781598532951) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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An anthology that traces how Shakespeare has shaped American history and culture—featuring pieces by Founding Fathers, Orson Welles, and other noteworthy figures “The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a ...
Shakespeare in America. An Anthology from the Revolution to Now. New York: The Library of America, 2014. 724 pp. was published on November 27, 2017 in the journal Kritikon Litterarum (volume 44, issue 3-4).
Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution, slavery, war, social justice—were refracted and understood. In tracing the many surprising forms this influence took, Shapiro draws on many genres—poetry, fiction, essays, plays, memoirs, songs, speeches, letters, movie reviews, comedy routines ...
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1. Apr. 2014 · An anthology that traces how Shakespeare has shaped American history and culture—featuring pieces by Founding Fathers, Orson Welles, and other noteworthy figures “The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary ...
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19. Feb. 2017 · America's Shakespeare: The Bard goes west to California’s Gold Rush mining camps. Theater was explosively popular in California’s Gold Rush era, and miners couldn’t get enough of Shakespeare. San Francisco and Sacramento had major theaters that were repeatedly burning down and being rebuilt almost immediately.
“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” From our beginnings as a nation, Shakespeare has been a central, inescapable part of our literary heritage, a figure so widely revered that, as Tocqueville noted in the 1830s, there was “hardly a pioneer’s hut” without a ...
