Author: Alden T. Vaughan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-04-05

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0199566380

This book is a lively account of how American culture has embraced the English playwright and poet from colonial times to the present. It ranges widely, following the story of Shakespeare's reception in America from the scholarly - criticism, editions of the plays, and curricula - to the light-hearted - burlesques, musical comedies, and kitsch.