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Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage
Frances Teague
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Description for Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage
paperback. An account of popular Shakespeare performances in America, and of musicals based on Shakespeare's plays. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 377.
Shakespeare's effect on America's intellectual and artistic life has been much discussed, but what role does he play on the American popular stage? This study changes our understanding of Shakespeare's presence in American life. The book looks at how Shakespeare came to America just before the Revolutionary War. As Americans broke with Britain, they embraced Britain's playwright. Teague re-examines P. T. Barnum's attempt to buy Shakespeare's Birthplace, the Astor Place Riot when twenty-three people died, and the way both Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth regarded Shakespeare. In the history of Broadway, more musicals have drawn on Shakespeare than any ... Read more
Shakespeare's effect on America's intellectual and artistic life has been much discussed, but what role does he play on the American popular stage? This study changes our understanding of Shakespeare's presence in American life. The book looks at how Shakespeare came to America just before the Revolutionary War. As Americans broke with Britain, they embraced Britain's playwright. Teague re-examines P. T. Barnum's attempt to buy Shakespeare's Birthplace, the Astor Place Riot when twenty-three people died, and the way both Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth regarded Shakespeare. In the history of Broadway, more musicals have drawn on Shakespeare than any ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521679923
SKU
V9780521679923
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99-24
About Frances Teague
Frances Teague is Josiah Meigs Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
Reviews for Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage
'… Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage is industriously researched and frequently illuminating: a useful contribution to American studies, and to the study of Shakespeare in performance.' The Times Literary Supplement