Peter Rawlings
Ashgate
Hardback
568
1999
Shakespeare is ?the great author of America? declared James Fenimore Cooper in 1828. The ambiguous resonance of this claim is fully borne out in this collection of writings on Shakespeare by over forty prominent Americans spanning the period between the War of Independence and the outbreak of the First World War. Featured writers include: Ralph Waldo Emerson Edgar Allan Poe Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Abraham Lincoln Walt Whitman and Mark Twain.