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Shakespeare in a Divided America

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by James Shapiro


  Cushman, Susan, 33, 40–41, 44

  Daly, Augustin, 121, 150

  Damon, Matt, 196, 197

  Dandridge Sisters, 157

  Danes, Claire, 177

  Darwin, Charles, 122

  Davenport, Edward L., 97

  Davidge, William, 121

  Davis, Jefferson, 111, 116

  Day-Lewis, Daniel, 183

  Days of the Commune, The (Brecht), xvi–xvii

  Decius, xxii

  Dee, Ruby, 202

  Defense of Marriage Act, 195

  Delacorte Theater, xvi, 214, 219

  Julius Caesar at, xvi–xxix, 200, 203–20

  Delta Air Lines, 210–11

  de Mille, Agnes, 157

  democracy, xvi, xvii, xix, xxvii–xxviii, 138, 206, 218, 220

  Fairness Doctrine and, xxviii–xxix

  Democracy in America (Tocqueville), x, 60

  Democrats, 62, 69, 218

  Dent, Emma, 26

  Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 122

  Desdemona, 1–4, 8–14, 17–20, 24–26, 30, 31, 47

  Devlin, Mary, 41

  DiCaprio, Leonardo, 177

  DiGiacomo, Frank, 197

  Disney, Walt, 157

  diversity, 202–3

  divorce, 155, 170

  Dixon, George Washington, 59

  Doctors’ Riot, 58

  domestic violence, 166, 169

  Douglass, Frederick, 68

  Drake, Alfred, 148

  Drama League of America, 138–39

  Drama Society, 122

  Duncan (Macbeth), 65, 66, 112, 117–18

  Duncan, Isadora, 141

  Duyckinck, Evert, 69

  Edgar, 99

  Edinburgh Theatre, 50–51

  Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt), xiv

  Elderkin, J. D., 26

  Ellis Island, 123

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 100

  Emilia, 40

  Emma (Austen), 186

  English language, 129

  Esquire, 151

  Eustis, Oskar, xvi–xxix, 204, 206, 212–13, 217–20

  Evans, Andrew Browne, 166

  Facebook, 212, 213, 218

  Fagan, Bridget, 49

  Fairness Doctrine, xxviii–xxix

  Falstaff, 96, 97, 98, 101, 107, 125

  Faludi, Susan, 181

  Farnham, Marynia F., 154–55

  Farren, George, 58–59

  Farren Riot, 58, 59

  fascism, xix, xx

  Faux, William, 13

  FBI, 212, 214, 218

  Federal Communications Commission, xxviii–xxix

  Ferguson, William J., 99

  Fiennes, Joseph, 183

  Finkelpearl, Tom, 212

  Finnish War Relief Fund, 152

  First Amendment, 102

  Fiske, John, 124

  Flavius, xxi

  Fletcher, George, 44–45

  Fletcher, John, 149

  Flour Riots, 58

  Folger Shakespeare Library, 145–47

  Fontanne, Lynn, 150–52, 158, 160

  Ford, Henry Clay, 106

  Ford, John T., 108, 115

  Ford’s Theatre, 97, 99, 103, 106

  Forney, John W., 113

  Forrest, Edwin, 36–37, 39–40, 51–54, 58, 59, 63–66, 69–70, 72, 76, 77, 97–99, 113

  Fort Monroe, 89

  Fort Sumter, 102

  Foster, Gloria, 202

  Founding Fathers, ix

  Fox, 209, 216–17

  Fox, Richard Wightman, 117

  Fox & Friends, 209–10

  Freeman, Bud, 157

  Free Shakespeare in the Park, see Delacorte Theater

  free speech, 217, 218

  French, Benjamin Brown, 116

  Friar Lawrence, 32, 104

  From Manassas to Appomattox (Longstreet), 30–31

  Frontier Gal, 166

  Fruits of Amalgamation, The (Clay), xxxii, 18

  Furness, Howard H., 132

  Gallup polls, 187

  Garrett, John, 110

  Gayley, Charles Mills, 134–35

  gay relationships, 40, 179–82, 188, 193–97

  Gedney, George W., 49

  “General Macbeth” (McCarthy), xiv

  German University League, 141

  Germany, Nazi, xix–xx, 215

  Gibson, Mel, 177

  Gigliotti, Donna, 174

  Gilbert, Robert, xviii

  Gilded Age, xiv

  Gingrich, Newt, xxix

  Ginsberg, Ruth Bader, xv

  Gioia, Dana, 203

  Gladiator, The, 53

  Globe Theatre, 221

  Goebbels, Joseph, 215

  Goodman, Benny, 157

  Grant, Julia, 31

  Grant, Ulysses S., 22, 25–27, 30–31, 46, 47, 100, 111

  Great Britain, 38–39, 46

  Green, Jesse, 206

  Greenberg, Amy S., 29

  Greenblatt, Stephen, xv, xvi

  Greene, William H., 88

  Greet, Ben, 121

  Griffin, Kathy, 205

  Grover, Leonard, 97

  Grover’s Theatre, 97

  Guthrie, Tyrone, 122

  Guthrie Theater, Melrose’s production of Julius Caesar at, 206–7, 210, 211

  Guy Mannering (Scott), 91

  Hackett, James, 20–21, 51, 86, 96–98, 101, 112–13

  Hakluyt, Richard, 146

  Hal, Prince, 98

  Hale, Edward Everett, 133

  Hamblin, Mrs., 34

  Hamblin, Thomas, 58, 59, 63

  Hamlet, ix, 34, 47, 50–51, 87, 93, 97, 107–9, 202

  “The School Boy Hamlet” (Mori), xii–xiii

  Hamlet, xi, xviii, 50–54, 64, 86, 87, 95, 114, 116, 121

  film of, 177

  “G.I. Hamlet,” xiii

  Hammerstein, Oscar, 156, 163

  Hammond, James Henry, 18–19

  Hanks, Dennis, 88

  Hannity, Sean, xxix, 216–17

  Harper’s Magazine, 129

  Hart, Gertrude, 31

  Hay, John, 94–98

  Haymarket Theatre, 32, 33, 44

  Hays, Alexander, 22

  Hays, Matilda, 41

  “Heart of the Race, The” (Gayley), 135

  Heldon, Edward, 192–93

  Hellenic Union, 141

  Henry, Gregg, xviii, xxi, xxiii

  Henry IV, 64, 86, 97

  Henry IV, King, 98

  Henry V, ix, x, 143

  film of, 177

  Henry V, King, 86, 107

  Henry VI, 53, 95, 98

  Henry VIII, 64, 86

  Henry VIII, King, 53

  Herndon, William, 88, 89

  Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Levine), 78

  Hill, Anita, 181

  Holinshed, Raphael, Chronicles of, 117

  Holland, Joseph, xix

  Hollywood, 176–77, 181

  Holmes, Mary Ann, 90, 92

  Home Journal, 61

  Homeland, xviii

  homosexual relationships, 179–82

  Hoover, Herbert, 145

  Horatio, 50, 51, 109

  Hotspur, 86, 108–9

  Huckabee, Mike, 210

  Hunter, James Davison, 201

  “Hunting a Mythical Pall-Bearer” (Conway), 192–93

  Iago, 9, 13, 14, 24, 25

  Illustrated London News, 43–44

  Immigrants, The (MacKaye), 137

  Immigrants in America Review, 137

  immigrat
ion, 121–47

  literacy tests for, 128–30, 131, 145

  Lodge and, 127–31

  quotas for, 145, 147

  Immigration Act (1916), 141

  Immigration Commission, 131

  Immigration Restriction League, 124, 131, 134, 138

  income inequality and class warfare, 49–80

  Ingersoll, Charles Jared, 19

  Inside Edition, 205, 212

  Instagram, 212

  “In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg” (Loring), 192

  Irish Catholics, 93

  Irish Famine, 62

  Irving, Washington, 69

  Isaacson, Barry, 182

  ISIS, 214

  Italy, xix

  Ivanhoe (Scott), 86

  Jack Cade, 53

  Jackson, Andrew, 5, 37

  Jacksonian democracy, 37

  Jacques, 125

  James, Henry, 77

  James, Nikki M., xviii

  Japanese Americans, xii–xiii, 136, 155

  Jews, 124, 128, 130, 161

  in Nazi Germany, xx

  Jolie, Angelina, 187

  Jones, James Earl, 202

  Jones, Julia, 208

  Jones, Paula, 189–90

  Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Kemble), 21

  Judd, Ashley, 186

  Julia, Raul, 202

  Juliet, 2, 5, 32, 33, 35, 40–41, 44

  Julius Caesar, xviii, xxv–xxvi, 64, 75, 84–86, 92–94, 101–4, 106, 110, 116, 117, 121, 127, 221

  Antony in, xvii, xviii, xx–xxii, xxvi–xxvii, 101, 104, 207, 219

  Booths in, 82

  Brutus in, xvi–xviii, xix, xxii, xxiv–xxvii, 85, 92, 94, 97, 101, 104, 106, 110, 114–16, 207, 219

  Caesar in, xvii, xix–xxiii, xxv–xxvii, 101, 104, 106, 116

  Caesar in, and Trump, xviii, xx–xxiv, xxix, 204–6, 209–20

  Casca in, xviii, xxii–xxiv, 215

  Cassius in, xvi–xviii, xxii, xxiv, xxvii, 92, 101, 104, 206, 219

  at Delacorte Theater, xvi–xxix, 200, 203–20

  Melrose’s production of, 206–7, 210, 211

  Octavius in, xvii, xviii, xx, 219

  Welles’s production of, xviii–xx

  Kahn, Otto, 139, 141

  Kamps, Ivo, 201

  Katherine, 149–52, 156, 159, 161, 163–70

  Kean, Charles, 33

  Kean, Edmund, 5

  Kelly, Lydia, 34

  Kelso, John, 88

  Kemble, Charles, 4, 5

  Kemble, Fanny, 3–8, 12–14, 33, 69

  Adams and, 6–8, 13, 20, 21

  Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, 21

  Kemble, John Philip, 4, 5, 10, 33

  Kent, James, 19–20

  Kimball, Roger, 201

  King, Rodney, 208

  King John, 28, 64, 89, 116

  King Lear, 7, 53, 64, 84, 86, 89, 99, 107

  Lear in, 2, 99, 100, 116

  Kingsland, Ambrose, 78

  Kinsey Report, 163

  Kiss Me, Kate, 148, 152, 155–72

  spanking scene in, 148, 165–66, 170

  Klawans, Stuart, 198

  Knortz, Karl, x

  Knowles, James Sheridan, The Wife, 24, 31

  Know-Nothings, 92–93

  Kovaleski, Serge, xxiv

  Kushner, Jared, 79

  Kushner, Tony, 181

  labor, xiv

  Ladies’ Home Journal, 154

  Lafarge Hotel, 103

  Lafayette Circus, 55

  Lafayette Theater, 142

  Lamon, Ward Hill, 113–14

  Laugel, Auguste, 99–100

  Lawrence, Friar, 32, 104

  Lawrence, William, 127

  Lear, King, 2, 99, 100, 116

  Lee, Canada, 122

  Lee, Robert E., 100, 111

  Lee, Sidney, 133–34

  Left/Right divide, xxv, 201–21

  Leighton, Margaret, 33

  Leontes, 107

  lesbian, use of term, 40

  Lessons in Elocution (Scott), x, 86–87, 121

  Levine, Lawrence, 78

  Lewinsky, Monica, 189–90, 196–97

  Lewis, Mrs., 34

  Lewisohn Stadium, 139, 142

  liberalism, xix

  Library of America, xiv

  Lincoln, Abraham, x, xiii, xviii, 21, 85–90, 94–102, 111–14, 146

  assassination of, xiii, 83–85, 96, 104, 106, 108, 109, 111, 113–18

  education of, 85, 86

  habeas corpus suspended by, 102

  Hay and, 94–98

  nightmare of, 113–14

  reelection of, 101, 102

  slaves emancipated by, 102, 105, 117

  speeches of, 94, 104–6

  theatergoing of, 96–100

  on trip to Richmond, 111–13

  Lincoln, Mary Todd, 99, 113–14

  Lincoln, Tad, 99, 100, 111

  Lincoln, Willie, 89–90, 94, 96

  Lincoln’s Body (Fox), 117

  Lindsay, Robert, 186

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 127–31, 133, 134, 204

  Longstreet, James, 25, 26, 30–31

  Loring, Frederick Wadsworth, 192

  Los Angeles, CA, 208

  Los Angeles Times, 136

  Lost Cause, The: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (Pollard), 109, 110

  Lucius, xxvi

  Luhrmann, Baz, 177

  Lundberg, Ferdinand, 154–55

  Lunt, Alfred, 150–52, 158, 160

  lynchings, 128

  Macbeth, xiii–xv, xviii, xix, 49, 53, 63–69, 72, 73, 84–86, 89, 95–97, 106, 112–13, 116–18, 121

  Banquo in, 64, 65, 114

  Duncan in, 65, 66, 112, 117–18

  Lady Macbeth in, 34, 35, 44, 84, 91–92, 114, 127

  Macbeth in, 19, 35, 64–65, 69, 85, 90, 107, 108, 111, 113, 114, 118

  Macduff in, 65

  Malcolm in, 112

  Macduff, 65

  MacKaye, Percy, 137

  Caliban by the Yellow Sands, 120, 122–23, 137–45

  The New Citizenship, 137, 138

  “A Prayer of the Peoples,” 140

  Macready, William, 33, 36–38, 49–57, 63–72, 76

  Madden, John, 175, 183–87, 191, 193, 195–97

  Magruder, John B., 24

  “Make America Great Again,” 172

  Malamud, Bernard, 144

  Malcolm, 112

  Malone, Edmond, 132

  Malvolio, xiii

  Manifest Destiny, xi, 23–47, 66

  Manifest Destiny and the Antebellum American Empire (Greenberg), 29

  manliness and effeminacy, 29–30, 32, 33, 35, 37, 47

  Marble Heart, The (Selby), 97, 107

  Maria (Twelfth Night), 202

  marriage, 149–72

  adultery and, 184, 187–90, 193

  Defense of Marriage Act, 195

  divorce and, 155, 170

  violence in, 166, 169

  wartime, 155

  Marriot, Miss, 47

  Martyr of Liberty, The, 117

  Marvel, Elizabeth, xviii, xxvi–xxvii

  Mastin, Florence Ripley, 144

  Matheny, James, 88

  Matsell, George, 67

  Matthews, Brander, 127, 133

  Matthews, John, 106

  McBrien, William, 161

  McCann, Tom, 210–13

  McCarthy, Mary, xiv

  McConnell, Mitch, 207

  McCullough, John, 99

  McDonough, John, 98
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  McGowan, Rose, 186

  McGuffey’s Reader, x, 121

  McKellen, Ian, 177

  McKinney, D. D., 58

  McVicker, James, 121

  Measure for Measure, 75

  media, xix

  Fairness Doctrine and, xxviii–xxix

  Mediaite, 205

  Meet General Grant (Woodward), 26

  Melrose, Rob, 206–7, 210, 211

  Melville, Herman, 69–70

  Mercantile Library Association, 79

  Merchant of Venice, The, 64, 125

  Portia in, xv, xviii, 5, 125

  Shylock in, xii, xiii, xv, 92, 93, 97, 107, 125

  Mercutio, 36, 104

  Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 96, 97, 98

  Metamora, 53, 58

  #MeToo movement, 197

  Mexican Americans, 130

  Mexican-American War, 23–30, 38, 46, 91–92

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 52

  film of, 177

  Swingin’ the Dream, 157

  Miramax, 175, 176, 183–85, 190, 193, 196–97

  Miranda, 125, 139, 140, 142–43

  miscegenation (amalgamation), 1–21, 24, 68

  “Misconceptions of Shakspeare Upon the Stage” (Adams), 2, 20–21

  Mitchell High School, xi–xii

  mob violence, xx

  Moby-Dick (Melville), 69

  “Modern Lear, A” (Addams), xiv

  Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (Farnham and Lundberg), 154–55, 165

  Molloy, Joanna, 196

  Mori, Toshio, xii–xiii

  Morison, Patricia, 148

  Morning Advertiser, 41

  Morning Chronicle, 42

  Morning Express, 74

  Mr. Macgreedy, or A Star at the Opera House, 64

  Much Ado About Nothing, 177

  Muller, Theodore, 57

  New York and Brooklyn, 55

  Murphy, Con T., 105

  Mussolini, Benito, xix

  Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 208

  Nation, 198

  National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 203, 210

  National Gazette, 8

  National Intelligence, 106

  National Opinion Research Center, 188

  National Songs, Ballads, and Other Patriotic Poetry Chiefly Relating to the War of 1846, 29

  National Theatre, 41

  Native Americans, 130, 133, 135, 146, 191, 193

  Nazi Germany, xix–xx, 215

  Ned Buntline’s Own, 63

  Negro Riots, 58

  Neshat, Marjan, xxiii, 215

  New Citizenship, The (MacKaye), 137, 138

  New England Magazine, 2, 8

  New National Theatre, 97

  New Orleans Daily Crescent, 50

  New York, xvi

  New York, NY, 55–57

  African Americans in, 55–57

  Astor Place, 79–80

  Astor Place Opera House, 45, 56, 60–64, 66–69, 75–76, 79–80

  Astor Place Opera House riots, 48, 49–50, 56, 58, 69–80, 204, 217

  Central Park, 78, 100, 101, 139; see also Delacorte Theater

 

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