Acting in the night :: Macbeth and the places of the Civil War /

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, p...

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1. Verfasser: Nemerov, Alexander
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index.
ISBN:9780520947443
0520947444
128327728X
9781283277280
9786613277282
6613277282