Finding Shakespeare In America
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Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1598534637 |
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 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—and on a remarkable range of American writers from Emerson, Melville, Lincoln, and Mark Twain to James Agee, John Berryman, Pauline Kael, and Cynthia Ozick. Americans of the revolutionary era ponder the question “to sign or not to sign;” Othello becomes the focal point of debates on race; the Astor Place riots, set off by a production of Macbeth, attest to the violent energies aroused by theatrical controversies; Jane Addams finds in King Lear a metaphor for American struggles between capital and labor. Orson Welles revolutionizes approaches to Shakespeare with his legendary productions of Macbeth and Julius Caesar; American actors from Charlotte Cushman and Ira Aldridge to John Barrymore, Paul Robeson, and Marlon Brando reimagine Shakespeare for each new era. The rich and tangled story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own is a literary and historical revelation. As a special feature, the book includes a foreword by Bill Clinton, among the latest in a long line of American presidents, including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, who, as the collection demonstrates, have turned to Shakespeare’s plays for inspiration.
Author | : Colleen Sehy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781734373202 |
Americans have embraced William Shakespeare for more than 250 years. Finding Shakespeare in America celebrates this long-standing love affair with the Bard by bringing together hundreds of Shakespeare-related attractions across the United States in a single guidebook that makes it easy to explore and celebrate Shakespeare's remarkable American legacy. You'll find: More than 200 festivals and theater companies devoted to the Bard More than 100 places to enjoy outdoor Shakespeare performances More than 40 Shakespeare and Elizabethan gardens Precious First Folios and other rare copies of the Bard's works Detailed replicas of Elizabethan theaters Buildings in America that actually stood in England during Shakespeare's lifetime Statues, stained glass, and other artwork featuring the Bard and his characters Resources to help educators and parents introduce young people to the Bard And much more! Finding Shakespeare in America is the perfect traveling companion and the perfect way to add more Shakespeare to your life, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and everywhere in between.
Author | : Alden T. Vaughan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199566380 |
This book is a lively account of how American culture has embraced the English playwright and poet from colonial times to the present. It ranges widely, following the story of Shakespeare's reception in America from the scholarly - criticism, editions of the plays, and curricula - to the light-hearted - burlesques, musical comedies, and kitsch.
Author | : Alden T. Vaughan |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199566380 |
This book is a lively account of how American culture has embraced the English playwright and poet from colonial times to the present. It ranges widely, following the story of Shakespeare's reception in America from the scholarly - criticism, editions of the plays, and curricula - to the light-hearted - burlesques, musical comedies, and kitsch.
Author | : James Shapiro |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416541632 |
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author | : Anna Claybourne |
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Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Children's stories, English |
ISBN | : 9781610674072 |
Author | : James Shapiro |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061840904 |
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.
Author | : Stephen Greenblatt |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393079848 |
Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author | : Jan Kott |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015-01-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0804152195 |
Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare. More than that, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions. Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage conceptions. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary has been translated into nineteen languages since it appeared in 1961, and readers all over the world have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched.
Author | : Ashley Thorndike |
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Release | : 1978 |
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