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Celebrates Shakespeare'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

Table of 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