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Shakespeare in American life / compiled and edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan.

Van Pelt Library PR2971.U6 F65 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Folger Shakespeare Library.
Contributor:
Vaughan, Virginia Mason.
Vaughan, Alden T., 1929-2024.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--United States--Exhibitions.
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence--Exhibitions.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--Exhibitions.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Folger Shakespeare Library.
United States.
Folger Shakespeare Library--Exhibitions.
Genre:
Adaptations.
Exhibition catalogs -- Washington (D.C.) -- 2007.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
189 pages : color illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2007.
Contents:
Shakespeare Discovers America; America Discovers Shakespeare / Alden T. Vaughan 11
Making Shakespeare American: Shakespeare's Dissemination in Nineteenth-Century America / Virginia Mason Vaughan 23
Playing with (a) Difference: Early Black Shakespearean Actors, Blackface and Whiteface / Francesca T. Royster 35
Shakespeare Film in America: O Brave New World of Bardolatry! / Kenneth S. Rothwell 49
Shakespeare and the American Musical / Irene G. Dash 63
Jazzing Up Shakespeare / Douglas M. Lanier 77
American Shakespeare Festivals / Yu Jin Ko 89
Duty and Enjoyment: The Folgers as Shakespeare Collectors in the Gilded Age / Georgianna Ziegler 101
Catalogue of the Exhibition / Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan 113
Interlude: American Scrapbooks / Leigh Anne Palmer 145.
Notes:
"This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Shakespeare in American life presented at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, from 8 March through 18 August 2007, in celebration of the Library's 75th anniversary"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
ISBN:
0295987154
9780295987156
OCLC:
123409151

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