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Here in This Island We Arrived:

Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York
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Explores the uses of Shakespeare in Manhattan’s Lower East Side from the 1890s to 1920s, as part of a cultural exchange among non-Anglo and Anglo-identified groups, intermingling different communities’ ideas about what Shakespeare, race, and national belonging should and could mean for Americans.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note About Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: Shakespeare and American Culture

1. Shakespeare and the Myth of the Melting Pot

2. Shakespearean Translations, Immigrant Adaptations, and Community Formations

3. Slumming with Shakespeare

4. The Profit of the City Consisteth of All Nations

Conclusion: This Island’s Mine

Notes

Bibliography

Index



“Kinsley’s work is rich in detailed examples, and calls into question claims that Shakespearean performance in America had become, by the early twentieth century, the domain of ‘highbrow’ culture. Rather, by carefully drawing upon the multitude of Shakespearean performances in New York’s immigrant communities, this book shows that ‘Shakespeare’s meaning—and the terms of American belonging—was always in flux.’ Students of theatre, American studies, urban studies, and history will all be interested in this text.””

—Lisa Merrill, author of When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators

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