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From his own lifetime thorugh to the present day, the one constant
feature of the English theatre has been the work of William
Shakespeare. Correspondingly, the influence of his poetry on the
critical tradition of successive ages has been central. With the
growing influence of neo-classicism after the Restoration,
Shakespeare came to be viewed with a mixture of awe and contempt;
as a brilliant but flawed artist. He was both subjected to
prescriptive literary criticism and frequently "re-invented"
according to largely irrelevant criteria, in his intepretation on
the stage. However, whether admired or reviled he was never ignored
and was consistently a seminal influence in the work of poets,
critics and actors. As the Romantic movement emerged, the rift
between the worlds of literature and the theatre began slowly to
heal and Shakespeare as the absis for serious theatrical art
appeared to become a possibility.
The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from
after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge
man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they
stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In addition to
the New York city and state governments, the Tweed Ring controlled
the press except for Harper's Weekly. Short and slight Thomas Nast
was the most dominant American political cartoonist of all time;
using his pen as his sling in Harper's Weekly, he attacked Tweed
almost single-handily before The New-York Times joined the battle
in 1870. Where "Doomed by Cartoon" differs from previous books
about Boss Tweed is its focus on looking at circumstances and
events as Thomas Nast visualized them in his 160-plus cartoons,
almost like a serialized but intermittent comic book covering 1866
through 1978. It has been organized to tell the Nast vs. Tweed
story so that readers with an interest in politics history and/or
cartoons will enjoy.
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