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Book SynopsisCelebrates Shakespeare's influence on American culture. This book contains essays which explore Shakespeare's influence on America's cultural history from a variety of perspectives. It includes essays from the colonial period, to the adoption of Shakespeare as an "American genius" in the nineteenth century, to twentieth-century musical comedy.
Table of ContentsForeword / Gail Kern PasterIntroduction / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan
Shakespeare Discovers America; America Discovers Shakespeare / Alden T. Vaughan
Making Shakespeare American: Shakespeare's Dissemination in Nineteenth-Century America / Virginia Mason Vaughan
Playing with (a) Difference: Early Black Shakespearean Actors, Blackface and Whiteface / Francesca T. Royster
Shakespeare Film in America: O Brave New World of Bardolatry! / Kenneth S. Rothwell
Shakespeare and the American Musical / Irene G. Dash
Jazzing Up Shakespeare / Douglas M. LanierAmerican Shakespeare Festivals / Yu Jin Ko
Duty and Enjoyment: The Folgers as Shakespeare Collectors in the Gilded Age / Georgianna Ziegler
Catalogue of the Exhibition / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan
Interlude: American Scrapbooks / Leigh Anne Palmer
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