This book documents America's relationship with Shakespeare. It relates how and why Shakespeare became a hero of American popular culture and its first media superstar. Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? America had already chosen to reject the British monarchy and Parliament, class structure and traditions, by the nineteenth century. Yet its citizens still consider William Shakespeare a naturalized American hero. In fact, the largest group of visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside currently comes from America.
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Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century America had already chosen to reject the British monarchy and Parliament, class structure and traditions, yet they still made William Shakespeare a naturalized American hero. Today the largest group of visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside come from America. This book tells the story of America's relationship with Shakespeare. The story of how and why Shakespeare became a hero of American popular culture, their first media superstar.
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Before television, film and professional sport were developed to satisfy American needs for mass entertainment, there was just theatre. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Fourth of July, William Shakespeare, New Orleans, Declaration of Independence, Walt Whitman, First Folio, Delia Bacon, American Shakespearean Criticism, Folger Shakespeare Library, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Jefferson, Edwin Forrest, War of Independence, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pluribus Unum, Astor Place, Joseph Hopkinson, Julius Caesar, North American Review, Edwin Booth, Hail Columbia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Sprague New!
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Before television, film and professional sport were developed to satisfy American needs for mass entertainment, there was just theatre. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern popular culture, oration delivered Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Fourth of July, William Shakespeare, New Orleans, Declaration of Independence, Walt Whitman, First Folio, Delia Bacon, American Shakespearean Criticism, Folger Shakespeare Library, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Jefferson, Edwin Forrest, War of Independence, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pluribus Unum, Astor Place, Joseph Hopkinson, Julius Caesar, North American Review, Edwin Booth, Hail Columbia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Sprague New!
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- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville on 5 pages
- The Sketch Book by Washington Irving on 5 pages
- The Philosophy Of The Plays Of Shakespeare Unfolded by Delia Bacon on 5 pages
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic) by Mark Twain on 5 pages
- The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier by Ralph L. Rusk on 5 pages
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- Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage by Frances Teague in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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