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Shakespeare and American Life celebrates the extraordinary English poet's influence on American culture - whether high, low, or middlebrow - to mark the 150th anniversary of Henry Folger's birth and the 75th anniversary of the great library he and Emily created for Shakespearean scholarship. A sampler of such scholarship is here presented by nine essays that offer contexts for the multitude of images and objects on display in the Folger Library's Great Hall during the spring and summer of 2007, many of them - and a few additional images - reproduced in this catalogue. The essays explore Shakespeare's influence on America's cultural history from a variety of perspectives. Chronologically, they range from the colonial period, to the adoption of Shakespeare as an "American genius" in the nineteenth century, to twentieth-century musical comedy, film, theater, and finally to Shakespeare as we know him in twentyfirst century America. Culturally, the essays range from the academic (about editors and scholars), to the theatrical (Shakespeare's continuous presence on the American stage), to the popular (the appropriation of Shakespeare as a popular icon in advertising, folk art, and kitsch).
Contents
Foreword / Gail Kern Paster
Introduction / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan
Shakespeare Discovers America; America Discovers Shakespeare / Alden T. Vaughan
Making Shakespeare American: Shakespeare's Dissemination in Nineteenth-Century America / Virginia Mason Vaughan
Playing with (a) Difference: Early Black Shakespearean Actors, Blackface and Whiteface / Francesca T. Royster
Shakespeare Film in America: O Brave New World of Bardolatry! / Kenneth S. Rothwell
Shakespeare and the American Musical / Irene G. Dash
Jazzing Up Shakespeare / Douglas M. Lanier
American Shakespeare Festivals / Yu Jin Ko
Duty and Enjoyment: The Folgers as Shakespeare Collectors in the Gilded Age / Georgianna Ziegler
Catalogue of the Exhibition / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan
Interlude: American Scrapbooks / Leigh Anne Palmer
Notes on Contributors
