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

Title
Shakespeare in American life / compiled and edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Vaughan, Virginia Mason
  • Vaughan, Alden T., 1929-
  • Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Folger Shakespeare Library, host institution.
Description
189 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Appreciation > United States > Exhibitions
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Influence > Exhibitions
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Adaptations > Exhibitions
  • Folger Shakespeare Library > Exhibitions
  • Geschichte
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs – Washington (D.C.) – 2007.
Note
  • "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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword: Gail Kern Paster -- Introduction: 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. Lanier -- American 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.
ISBN
  • 9780295987156 (pbk.)
  • 0295987154 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007300095
OCLC
  • 123409151
  • SCSB-11627895
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library