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Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2010
- Pages: 312
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.60in - 6.00in - 0.80in - 1.58lb
- EAN: 9780520251861
- Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Theater - History & Criticism• United States - General
About the Author
Alexander Nemerov, Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, is the author of Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures, The Body of Raphael Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824 (both from UC Press), and Frederick Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America.
Praise for this book
"This book is a tour de force, a remarkable journey through history and art. . . . Highly recommended."-- "Choice" (5/9/2011 12:00:00 AM)