Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
JAMES SHAPIRO is a professor at Columbia University. His books include Rival Playwrights (1991), Shakespeare and the Jews (1996), Oberammergau (2000), 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005), and Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (2010). Most recently, he was writer and presenter of the three-part BBC series Shakespeare: The King’s Man. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Folger Shakespeare Library and is Shakespeare scholar in residence at the Public Theater.
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“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution, slavery, war, social justice—were refracted and understood. In tracing the many surprising forms this influence took, Shapiro draws on many genres—poetry, fiction, essays, plays, memoirs, songs, speeches, letters, movie reviews, comedy routines—and on a remarkable range of American writers from Emerson, Melville, Lincoln, and Mark Twain to James Agee, John Berryman, Pauline Kael, Woody Allen, and Cynthia Ozick. Americans of the revolutionary era ponder the question “to sign or not to sign;” Othello becomes the focal point of debates on race; the Astor Place riots, set off by a production of Macbeth, attest to the violent energies aroused by theatrical controversies; Jane Addams finds in King Lear a metaphor for American struggles between capital and labor. Orson Welles revolutionizes approaches to Shakespeare with his legendary productions of Macbeth and Julius Caesar; American actors from Charlotte Cushman and Ira Aldridge to John Barrymore, Paul Robeson, and Marlon Brando reimagine Shakespeare for each new era. The rich and tangled story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own is a literary and historical revelation. As a special feature, the book includes a foreword by Bill Clinton, among the latest in a long line of American presidents, including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, who, as the collection demonstrates, have turned to Shakespeare’s plays for inspiration.
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评分除瞭bill clinton的前言 彆的都完美。美國文庫此作彆齣新意 選材很有意思。推薦所有喜歡莎士比亞和對美國社會感興趣的人讀。
评分除瞭bill clinton的前言 彆的都完美。美國文庫此作彆齣新意 選材很有意思。推薦所有喜歡莎士比亞和對美國社會感興趣的人讀。
评分除瞭bill clinton的前言 彆的都完美。美國文庫此作彆齣新意 選材很有意思。推薦所有喜歡莎士比亞和對美國社會感興趣的人讀。
评分除瞭bill clinton的前言 彆的都完美。美國文庫此作彆齣新意 選材很有意思。推薦所有喜歡莎士比亞和對美國社會感興趣的人讀。
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