Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-708) and index.
Contents:
The pausing American loyalist / Anonymous. -- Epilogue to Coriolanus / Jonathan M. Sewall. -- The tragic genius of Shakspeare an ode / Peter Markoe. -- Letter to John Quincy Adams 1805 / John Adams. -- Stratford on Avon / Washington Irving. -- Prize ode / Charles Sprague. -- The Character of Desdemona / John Quincy Adams. -- Hazlitt's characters of Shakspeare / Edgar Allan Poe. -- First impressions of Miss Cushman's Romeo / J. M. W. -- Indians of North America / Maungwudaus. -- Account of the terrific and fatal riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House / Anonymous. --Shakspeare, or, the Poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson. -- Hawthoren and his Mosses / Herman Melville. -- Ira Aldridge / William Wells Brown. -- Recollections of a gifted woman / Nathaniel Hawthorne. -- Dramas vitallest expression is the common day / Emily Dickinson. -- Address delivered at the opening of the New Theatre at Richmond / Henry Timrod. -- Letter to James H. Hackett 1863 / Abraham Lincoln. -- The killing of Julius Caesar localized / Mark Twain. -- Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration, April 23, 1864 / Oliver Wendell Holmes. -- Letter to the National Intelligencer / John Wilkes Booth. -- The Coming storm / Herman Melville. -- Shylock, a burlesque / G. W. H. Griffin. -- Othello / Mary Preston. -- In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg / Frederick Wadsworth Loring. -- What lurks behind Shaksperes historical plays / Walt Whitman. -- The art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet / William Winter. -- Shakespeare / William Dean Howells. -- Antony and Cleopatra / Willa Cather. -- Shakespeares Americanisms / Henry Cabot Lodge. -- A modern Lear / Jane Addams. -- The Hiartville Shakespeare Club / Belle Marshall Locke. -- The birthplace / Henry James. -- Autobiographical dictation / Mark Twain. -- Shakespeare: made in America / George Santayana. -- Out, Out / Robert Frost. -- Shakespeares heroines as human beings / Charlotte Perkins Gilman. -- Heart of the race / Charles Mills Gayley. -- Hamlet and his problems / T. S. Eliot. -- To Mark Anthony in heaven / William Carlos Williams. -- Shakespeares of 1922 / Lorenz Hart and Morrie Ryskind. -- John Barrymores Hamlet / Stark Young. -- Shakespeare for America / George F. Whicher. -- Shakespeare and American culture / Joseph Quincy Adams. -- The Macbeth murder mystery / James Thurber. -- Orson Welles Julius Caesar / Sidney B. Whipple. -- Japanese Hamlet / Toshio Mori. -- Shakespeare in Harlem / Langston Hughes. -- Paul Robeson Othello / Samuel Sillen. -- Laurence Olivier Henry V / James Agee. -- Preface to G. I. Hamlet / Maurice Evans. -- Brush up your Shakespeare / Cole Porter. -- The abuse of greatness / Hollis Alpert. -- The immortal bard / Isaac Asimov. -- Shakespeares last word: justice and redemption / John Berryman. -- Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin daddis / Lord Buckley. -- Carlus / Hyam Plutzik. -- General Macbeth / Mary McCarthy. -- After dark / Adrienne Rich. -- Orson Welles: there aint no way / Pauline Kael. -- From Run-through / John Houseman. -- Bus soft ... real soft / Woody Allen. -- Caliban in blue / Walter McDonald. -- Cora Lee / Gloria Naylor. -- West Side Story / Dramatists Guild Landmark Symposium . -- The Shakespeare marathon / Frank Rich and Joseph Papp. -- Address to the Royal Society of Arts / Sam Wanamaker. -- Shakespeare in Iceland / Jane Smiley. -- Actors / Cynthia Ozick. -- Daily grind / B. J. Ward. -- From NETS / Jen Bervin.
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