This book examines the symbolic migration of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth in American culture, from its onstage origins to the White House. INDICE: - Introduction: Lady Macbeth in the White House - PART I: ORIGINS - From Shakespeare's Stage to Puritan Witch Hunts - Professional Actors Arrivein America: Bringing New Script and School of Acting - How Plays Inspired Washington (but Haunted the Adamses) - A 'Harlot's' Progress to Performing Lady Macbeth - PART II: REVOLUTION - Socializing with (and Spying on) Ben Franklin in Paris - Charlotte Melmoth and John Kemble in Ireland - Abigail Adams in Paris and London, from Ducis's Lady Macbeth to Siddons's - Fomenting National Pride and Riot in the Irish Theatre - Celebrating the French Revolution with United Irishmen - Irish Actress Becomes an American Citizen - Alien and Sedition Acts: A 'Season of Witches' - A 'Harlot's' Progress to Brooklyn - PART III: CIVIL WAR - America's Native Born Lady Macbeth - Witches' 'Battle Cry of the Republic' in the Astor Place Riots - Southern Abolitionist First Lady in the WhiteHouse - Performing Lady Macbeth for Charity: Cushman to John Wilkes Booth - Lincoln as Macbeth and then Duncan; His 'Partner of Greatness' as Mad Sleepwalker - PART IV: WORLD WARS - 'The Serpent Within' and 'Innocent Flower': Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry - The Making of 'Mrs. President' in World War One - G.I. Lady Macbeth and World War Two - Witch Hunts Return - The Evil Vampire
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62288-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 252
- Fecha Publicación: 17/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés