Shakespeare and the American Nation

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SHAKESPEARE AND THE AMERICAN NATION
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Prologue
	NOTES
Introduction
	SCHOLARSHIP ON SHAKESPEARE AND AMERICA
	METHODOLOGY AND SCOPE
	CHAPTER ORGANISATION AND CONTENTS
	NOTES
PART ONE The Paradox
	CHAPTER 1 Manifest consumption of Shakespeare
		ON STAGE
		A DEMAND FOR SHAKESPEARE
		SHAKESPEARE IN PRINT
		NOTES
	CHAPTER 2 America: a proudly anti-English ‘idea’
		NEITHER ANGLOPHOBIA NOR ANGLOPHILIA
		EVIDENCE OF EARLY ANTI-ENGLISH SENTIMENT
		THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
		FOURTH OF JULY ORATIONS
		ORATIONS AND RHETORICAL SKILLS
		IMAGERY AND ANTHEMS THAT POSITIONED ENGLAND AS THE ENEMY
		HISTORIC SITES AFFIRM THE THREAT OF THE ENGLISH
		THE ENEMY IN THE THEATRE
		POPULIST HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND
		TRAVELLERS’ TALES OF HOSTILITY TOWARDS ENGLAND
		CONCLUSION TO PART 1
		NOTES
PART TWO The Appropriation
	CHAPTER 3 Beginning the appropriation of Shakespeare and the ‘First American Edition’ of his works
		RICHARD III, A TYRANT FIT FOR A REBELLIOUS POPULATION
		EARLY APPROPRIATION IN POLITICAL WRITINGS
		APPROPRIATION AND THE COMMON FELT NEED
		THE BARRIER TO A WIDER READERSHIP
		THE ‘FIRST AMERICAN EDITION’
		JOSEPH HOPKINSON, AMERICAN NATIONALIST
		THE PREFACE TO THE ‘FIRST AMERICAN EDITION’ (1795)
		THE AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE ODES
		AMERICANISATION OF LATER EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE
		NOTES
	CHAPTER 4 Jacksonian energy – Shakespearean imagery
		NATION OF MANY NATIONS
		SHAKESPEAREAN IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE
		AN AUDIENCE LIVING IN A FRONTIER ENVIRONMENT
		THEATRE FURTHER WEST
		A DEMOCRATIC AUDIENCE
		AUDIENCE AND ACTORS
		BURLESQUE SHOWS
		THE AUDIENCE AS READER
		DIME NOVELS
		NOTES
	CHAPTER 5 Context for appropriation in nineteenth-century America
		THE CONTEXT OF AMERICAN EXPANSIONISM
		THE CONTEXT OF IMMIGRATION
		AMERICAN ETHNOGENESIS AND THE CULT OF ANGLO-SAXONISM
		THE ANGLO-SAXON MISSION
		THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ANGLO-AMERICAN DESTINY
		NOTES
	CHAPTER 6 The American heroic and ownership of Shakespeare
		LEADERS AND HEROES
		THE AMERICAN HEROIC
		HEROIC CELEBRATIONS IN PAINT AND STONE
		SCENES FROM A TRAGEDY
		PILGRIMAGES TO THE TOMB OF AMERICA’S PLAYWRIGHT
		THE AMERICAN FORREST
		WHO OWNED SHAKESPEARE?
		NOTES
	CHAPTER 7 Shakespeare as a fulcrum for American literature
		THE INFLUENCE OF SHAKESPEARE ON THE GENESIS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
		THE CONUNDRUM FOR AMERICAN WRITERS
		EDUCATION AND THE PROCESS OF APPROPRIATION
		THE DESIRE FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT
		SOUTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE
		A CHURCHYARD IN FREDERICKSBURG
		SHAKESPEARE BY OTHER MEANS
		AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AMERICA’S SHAKESPEARE
		THE CHEROKEE NATION
		VOICES OF MALCONTENTS
		NOTES
	CHAPTER 8 The American Scholar and the authorship controversy
		MORE WRITERS ON THE AUTHORSHIP QUESTION
		NOTES
	CHAPTER 9 Last scenes in the final act of appropriation
		IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
		SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHPLACE
		AMERICAN BARDOLOGY IN OTHER FORMS
		THE EVACUATION OF SHAKESPEARE’S TEXT TO THE ‘NEW WORLD’
		‘AN AMERICAN SHRINE IN MEMORY OF SHAKESPEARE’
		NOTES
Epilogue
	STAGE AND PARK
	SCREENS LARGE AND SMALL
	BAND OF BROTHERS
	NOTES
APPENDIX 1
	PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
		A fellow almost damn\'d in a fine face
APPENDIX 2
Bibliography
	EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE
	BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
	ARTICLES IN NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
Index