Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England
Author: Thomas Townsend ShermanPublisher: New York : T.A. Wright
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Players of a Century
Author: Henry Pitt PhelpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Lincoln and Shakespeare
Author: Michael AndereggPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632654
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
It was the measure of Shakespeare's poetic greatness, an early commentator remarked, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. “If this be so,” Walt Whitman wrote, "I should say that what Shakespeare did in poetic expression, Abraham Lincoln essentially did in his personal and official life." Whitman was only one of many to note the affinity between these two iconic figures. Novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights have frequently shown Lincoln quoting Shakespeare. In Lincoln and Shakespeare, Michael Anderegg for the first time examines in detail Lincoln’s fascination with and knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays. Separated by centuries and extraordinary circumstances, the two men clearly shared a belief in the power of language and both at times held a fatalistic view of human nature. While citations from Shakespeare are few in his writings and speeches, Lincoln read deeply and quoted often from the Bard's work in company, a habit well documented in diaries, letters, and newspapers. Anderegg discusses Lincoln’s particular interest in Macbeth and Hamlet and in Shakespeare’s historical plays, where we see themes that resonated deeply with the president—the dangers of inordinate ambition, the horrors of civil war, and the corruptions of illegitimate rule. Anderegg winnows confirmed evidence from myth to explore how Lincoln came to know Shakespeare, which editions he read, and which plays he would have seen before he became president. Once in the White House, Lincoln had the opportunity of seeing the best Shakespearean actors in America. Anderegg details Lincoln's unexpected relationship with James H. Hackett, one of the most popular comic actors in America at the time: his letter to Hackett reveals his considerable enthusiasm for Shakespeare. Lincoln managed, in the midst of overwhelming matters of state, to see the actor's Falstaff on several occasions and to engage with him in discussions of how Shakespeare’s plays should be performed, a topic on which he had decided views. Hackett's productions were only a few of those Lincoln enjoyed as president, and Anderegg documents his larger theater-going experience, recreating the Shakespearean performances of Edwin Booth, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest, and others, as Lincoln saw them.
Players of a Century
Author: Henry Pitt PhelpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Acting in the Night
Author: Alexander NemerovPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520947444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863—with Abraham Lincoln in attendance—to explore this question and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov’s inspiration is Wallace Stevens and his poem "Anecdote of the Jar," in which a single object organizes the wilderness around it in the consciousness of the poet. For Nemerov, that evening’s performance of Macbeth reached across the tragedy of civil war to acknowledge the horrors and emptiness of a world it tried and ultimately failed to change.
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
The Life of David Belasco
Author: William WinterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Refiguring the Archive
Author: Carolyn HamiltonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401005702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.