Acting in the night : Macbeth and the places of the Civil War / Alexander Nemerov.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520947443
- 0520947444
- 128327728X
- 9781283277280
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- United States
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Macbeth (Shakespeare, William)
- Shakespeare, William
- Macbeth
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Theater and the war
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
- Theater and society -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century
- Theater -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century
- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Virginia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Aspect social
- Théâtre et société -- Washington (D.C.) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Théâtre -- Washington (D.C.) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Washington (D.C.) -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Aspect social
- Virginie -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Aspect social
- Virginie -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Social aspects
- Social conditions
- Theater
- Theater and society
- War and theater
- United States
- Virginia
- Washington (D.C.)
- Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
- Aufführung
- USA
- Burgeroorlogen
- Macbeth (Shakespeare)
- Toneelvoorstellingen
- Verenigde Staten
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- 1800 - 1899
- 792.0973/09034 22
- E468.9 .N46 2010eb
- 15.85
- 18.05
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index.
Introduction: a drop that dyes the seas -- A stone's throw : Charlotte Cushman -- The flame of place : Abraham Lincoln -- The glass case : interior life in Washington, D.C. -- Acoustic shadows : the Battle of Bristoe Station -- Center of echoes : Castle Murray, Fauquier County, Virginia -- Ghosts : the death of Colonel Thomas Ruffin, October 17, 1863 -- Sound and fury : nature in Virginia.
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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 object organizes the wilderness around it in the consciousness of the poet. For Nemerov, that evening's performance of Macbeth reached across the tragedy.
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