An account of popular Shakespeare performances in America, and of musicals based on Shakespeare's plays.

The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began m

This book is a lively account of how American culture has embraced the English playwright and poet from colonial times to the present. It ranges widely, followi

This set of essays, which surveys major developments in the winding down of nineteenth-century methods of Shakespeare staging, spans the decades from the 1880s

One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book A timely exploration of