Here in This Island We Arrived : : Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York / / Elisabeth H. Kinsley.

In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially and ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Manhattan into a single cultural history, revealing how these communities interacted with one another and how their work influenced ide...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 14 illustrations/1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note About Translation and Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index