Acting in the Night - Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War (Hardcover, New)

What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of "Macbeth" in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863--with Abraham Lincoln in attendance--to explore this question and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov's inspiration is Wallace Stevens and his poem "Anecdote of the Jar," in which a single object organizes the wilderness around it in the consciousness of the poet. For Nemerov, that evening's performance of "Macbeth" reached across the tragedy of civil war to acknowledge the horrors and emptiness of a world it tried and ultimately failed to change.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	September 2010
Authors:	Alexander Nemerov
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	312
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-25186-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-520-25186-5
Barcode:	9780520251861

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