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Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the revolution to now
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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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