Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (LOA #251)
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, Jo…
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Weitere Autoren: Shapiro, James (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59853-463-4
- EAN: 9781598534634
- Produktnummer: 17567408
- Verlag: Library of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 688 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'184 KB
Über den Autor
JAMES SHAPIRO is Larry Miller Professor of English at Columbia University. His books include Rival Playwrights (1991), Shakespeare and the Jews (1996),Oberammergau (2000), 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005), and Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (2010). Most recently, he was writer and presenter of the three-part BBC series Shakespeare: The King's Man. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Folger Shakespeare Library and is Shakespeare scholar in residence at the Public Theater in New York.
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