Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War

by Alexander Nemerov

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520251865

ISBN13:9780520251861

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts

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