Shakespeare and the American NationCambridge University Press, 17 มิ.ย. 2004 - 234 หน้า Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly-independent America had chosen to reject the British monarchy and Parliament, class structure and traditions, yet their citizens still made William Shakespeare a naturalized American hero. Today the largest group of overseas visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bankside's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre come from America. Why? Is there more to Shakespeare's American popularity than just a love of men in doublet and hose speaking soliloquies? This book tells the story of America's relationship with Shakespeare. The story of how and why Shakespeare became a hero within American popular culture. Sturgess provides evidence of a comprehensive nineteenth-century appropriation of Shakespeare to the cause of the American Nation and shows that, as America entered the twentieth century a new world power, for many Americans Shakespeare had become as American as George Washington. |
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Manifest cousumption of Shakespeare | 15 |
America a proudly antiEnglish idea | 24 |
Beginning the appropriation of Shakespeare and the First American Edition of his works | 55 |
Jacksonian energyShakespearean imagery | 74 |
Context for appropriation in nineteenthcentury America | 99 |
The American heroic and ownership of Shakespeare | 122 |
Shakespeare at a fulcrum for American literature | 140 |
The American Scholar and the authorship controversy | 168 |
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