Americans on Shakespeare, 1776-1914
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Americans on Shakespeare, 1776-1914
Ashgate, c1999
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A collection of writings on Shakespeare by over 40 prominent Americans, spanning the period between the War of Independence and the outbreak of World War I. Featured writers include: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain. The essays are arranged in chronological order and provide a conspectus of American attitudes to Shakespeare, from the early empiricist approaches of the Shakespeare Society to the idealist vision of the poet held by later 19th-century critics. The bizarre contribution to the Shakespeare debate by Delia Bacon is exemplified by the inclusion of her 1856 article which is reprinted in entirety. The book charts the emergence of an American literary tradition and the gradual appropriation of Shakespeare as part of the American search for cultural identity; an identity which now appears poised to dominate the 21st century.
Table of Contents
- Shakespeare migrates to America, Peter Rawlings
- the pausing American loyalist, Moses Coit Tyler
- The Boar's Head tavern, East Cheap - a Shakespearian research, Washington Irving
- Stratford-on-Avon, Washington Irving
- notions of the Americans, James Fenimore Cooper
- misconceptions of Shakspeare upon the stage, John Quincy Adams
- advantages and disadvantages of foreign influence on American literature, Henry D. Thoreau
- on the progress of civilization, George Bancroft
- literary vassals, Orestes A. Brownson
- Shakespeare, Jones Very
- The Bermudas - a Shakesperian research, Washington Irving
- Shakespeare - or, The Poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Shakspeare and insanity, A.O. Kellogg
- a review of William Hazlitt's "The Characters of Shakspeare", Edgar Allan Poe
- the romance of yachting, Joseph C. Hart
- alleged immorality, H.N. Hudson
- Shakspeare in America, anonymous
- Hawthorne and his mosses, Herman Melville
- William Shakespeare and his plays, Delia Bacon
- preface to Delia Bacon's "The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unofolded", Nathaniel Hawthorne
- a thought on Shakespeare, Anna C. Brackett
- Shakespeare once more, James Russell Lowell
- Coriolanus, Mary Preston
- two speeches, William Cullen Bryant
- democratic vistas, Walt Whitman
- on the unveiling of Shakespeare's statue in Central Park, William Cullen Bryant
- the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, E.O. Vaile
- how shall we spell Sh-k-sp-r's name?, J.H. Gilmore
- in Warwickshire, Henry James
- poetry today in Americ - Shakespeare - the futrue, Walt Whitman
- the anatomizing of William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White
- what lurks behind Shakspere's historical plays, Walt Whitman
- a thought on Shakspere, Walt Whitman
- introduction to "The Taming of the Shrew", William Winter
- an additional word on "The Taming of the Shrew", Augustin Daly
- a Shakespeare, Jonathan Trumble
- the Whitman-Shakespeare question, Jonathan Trumble
- Edwin Booth, William Winter
- Shakespeare's Americanisms, Henry Cabot Lodge
- Barnum and Shakespeare, Mark Twain
- new world discoveries, Frank M. Bristol
- Shaw and Shakespeare, W.D. Howells
- Shakespeare in America, George B. Churchill
- introduction of "The Tempest", Henry James
- the response of concord, Henry James
- is Shakespeare dead?, Mark Twain
- Shakespeare spells ruin, William Winter
- Shakespeare and his audience, Brander Matthews
- Shakespeare and America - the perpetual ambassador of the English-speaking world, Charles William Wallace
- Shakespeare and the founders of liberty in America, charles Mill Gayley
- Shakespeare in America, Ashley Thorndike.
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