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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
