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1 online resource (viii, 267 pages) |
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Introduction : "Whose pencil-- here and there-- / Had notched the place that pleased him -- There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it" : advising women readers, Amherst's Shakespeare's Club, and Richard Henry Dana Sr. -- "I read a few words since I came home-- John Talbot's parting with his son, and Margaret's with Suffolk" : reading and performing Shakespeare, Fanny Kemble, and the Astor Place riot -- "Shakespeare was never accused of writing Bacon's works" : American Shakespeare criticism, Delia Bacon, James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White -- "He has had his future who has found Shakespeare" : American nationalism and the English dramatist -- "Pity me, however, I have finished Ramona. Would that like Shakespeare, it were just published!" : Shakespeare and women writers -- "Shakespeare always and forever" : Dickinson's circulation of the Bard -- "Then I settled down to a willingness for all the rest to go but William Shakespeare. Why need we Joseph read anything else but him" : Dickinson reading Antony and Cleopatra -- "Heard Othello at museum" : Junius Brutus Booth, Tommaso Salvini, and the performance of race -- "Hamlet wavered for all of us" : Dickinson and Shakespearean tragedy -- Conclusion : "Touch Shakespeare for me." |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-259) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Knowledge -- Literature
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- United States
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Allusions.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Allusions
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Knowledge -- Literature
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. fast (OCoLC)fst00035276 |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00029048 |
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American poetry -- English influences
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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Allusions.
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American poetry -- English influences.
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Literature.
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Art appreciation.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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United States.
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Literature.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781613760901 |
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1613760906 |
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