Shakespeare on the American Stage: From Booth and Barrett to Sothern and Marlowe

Shakespeare on the American Stage: From Booth and Barrett to Sothern and Marlowe

Author: Charles Harlen Shattuck

Publisher: Associated University Presses

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0918016770

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This set of essays, which surveys major developments in the winding down of nineteenth-century methods of Shakespeare staging, spans the decades from the 1880s to about 1920. The Epilogue describes the American celebration of the Tercentenary of Shakespeare's death.


Shakespeare on the American Stage: From the Hallams to Edwin Booth

Shakespeare on the American Stage: From the Hallams to Edwin Booth

Author: Charles Harlen Shattuck

Publisher: [Washington] : Folger Shakespeare Library, 1976-c1987

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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This set of essays, which surveys major developments in the winding down of nineteenth-century methods of Shakespeare staging, spans the decades from the 1880s to about 1920. The Epilogue describes the American celebration of the Tercentenary of Shakespeare's death.


Shakespeare in America

Shakespeare in America

Author: Alden T. Vaughan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-04-05

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0199566380

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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.


The American Stage

The American Stage

Author: Ron Engle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-05-06

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780521412384

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This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its history. Alone or as a collection, these essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.


Shakespeare on the Stage

Shakespeare on the Stage

Author: William Winter

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13:

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Includes comments on several of Shakespeare's plays. Explains how those plays have been represented and describes some of the actors who have been eminent in their performances in the plays.


Wartime Shakespeare

Wartime Shakespeare

Author: Amy Lidster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-26

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1009356070

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This is the first sustained study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized during conflicts spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It draws on interdisciplinary research to develop an innovative critical methodology that reveals the creativity and diversity of wartime theatre production and its variable impacts.


Great Shakespeareans Set I

Great Shakespeareans Set I

Author: Peter Holland

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-06-03

Total Pages: 1078

ISBN-13: 1441124039

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Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Great Shakespeareans will be an essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.