British ballads and songs
Author : Vance Randolph
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780826203007
Author : Vance Randolph
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780826203007
Author : Various
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1598534637
An anthology that traces how Shakespeare has shaped American history and culture—featuring pieces by Founding Fathers, Orson Welles, and other noteworthy figures “The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution, slavery, war, social justice—were refracted and understood. In tracing the many surprising forms this influence took, Shapiro draws on many genres—poetry, fiction, essays, plays, memoirs, songs, speeches, letters, movie reviews, comedy routines—and on a remarkable range of American writers from Emerson, Melville, Lincoln, and Mark Twain to James Agee, John Berryman, Pauline Kael, and Cynthia Ozick. Americans of the revolutionary era ponder the question “to sign or not to sign;” Othello becomes the focal point of debates on race; the Astor Place riots, set off by a production of Macbeth, attest to the violent energies aroused by theatrical controversies; Jane Addams finds in King Lear a metaphor for American struggles between capital and labor. Orson Welles revolutionizes approaches to Shakespeare with his legendary productions of Macbeth and Julius Caesar; American actors from Charlotte Cushman and Ira Aldridge to John Barrymore, Paul Robeson, and Marlon Brando reimagine Shakespeare for each new era. The rich and tangled story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own is a literary and historical revelation. As a special feature, the book includes a foreword by Bill Clinton, among the latest in a long line of American presidents, including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, who, as the collection demonstrates, have turned to Shakespeare’s plays for inspiration.
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Folk songs, English
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Ballads, English
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Author : Sigmund Spaeth
Publisher : Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1926
Category : American ballads
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Author : Horace Greeley
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 1840
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1926
Category : American literature
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Author : Martha Griffith Browne
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Life of a Female Slave is a novel written by American suffragist and anti-slavery propagandist. Set in a fictional Kentucky location modeled off of the Owensboro and Daviess County, Kentucky of her childhood, Griffith recounted her personal experiences during her childhood through the voice of the enslaved woman Ann.
Author : BEETON
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Page : 696 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Martha Griffith Browne
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3849643891
Another example of the fictitious slave narrative is this book, An Account of a Female Slave (1857), which suggests the narrative only in title. Although no convincing proof is offered that the book deals with fact and the names of places in the story are not spelled in full, there is an elaborate plot, with climax and abundant subaction; a conspicuous effort at literary finish is discernible—all evidences that the book is not the unpretentious record of truth it purports to be. Moreover, the author was considerably influenced by Uncle Tom's Cabin. Except for his sex John Peterkin is an-other little Eva: he has the same excessively precocious and angelic nature; he talks in the same wise and prophetic strain; and he, also, fades away and dies, a flower too good for this wicked and slavery-cursed world. Everywhere there is an abundance of sentimentality—much weeping, sighing, poetizing, affected expression of feeling. Even the slaves are sentimental, especially the almost white heroine, who speaks of watering the lovely flowers with her tears, as though this were nothing out of the ordinary, and who preserves, as her chief and dearest treasure, the note her lover wrote before killing himself to escape slavery.