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Informationen zum Autor GAY SMITH is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theater at Wesleyan University! USA. Klappentext Lady Macbeth has haunted American history since the conflicts of Shakespeare s England spilled over into New England s real witch hunts. To reveal how Lady Macbeth entered American politics as an icon for the First Lady! this investigation focuses on the prominent actresses in the role! how they performed! and their effect on audiences anxious about the country s First Lady and her influence over the President - especially at times of war. Smith ably shows how the various Lady Macbeths have both reflected and shaped the image their contemporaries have of the ambitious political wife! producing parallels that converge dramatically in twentieth-century "witch hunts." Zusammenfassung Lady Macbeth has haunted American history since the conflicts of Shakespeare s England spilled over into New England s real witch hunts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Lady Macbeth in the White HousePART I: ORIGINSFrom Shakespeare's Stage to Puritan Witch HuntsProfessional Actors Arrive in America: Bringing New Script and School of ActingHow Plays Inspired Washington (but Haunted the Adamses)A 'Harlot's' Progress to Performing Lady MacbethPART II: REVOLUTIONSocializing with (and Spying on) Ben Franklin in ParisCharlotte Melmoth and John Kemble in IrelandAbigail Adams in Paris and London! from Ducis's Lady Macbeth to Siddons'sFomenting National Pride and Riot in the Irish TheatreCelebrating the French Revolution with United IrishmenIrish Actress Becomes an American CitizenAlien and Sedition Acts: A 'Season of Witches'A 'Harlot's' Progress to BrooklynPART III: CIVIL WARAmerica's Native Born Lady MacbethWitches' 'Battle Cry of the Republic' in the Astor Place RiotsSouthern Abolitionist First Lady in the White HousePerforming Lady Macbeth for Charity: Cushman to John Wilkes BoothLincoln as Macbeth and then Duncan; His 'Partner of Greatness' as Mad SleepwalkerPART IV: WORLD WARS'The Serpent Within' and 'Innocent Flower': Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen TerryThe Making of 'Mrs. President' in World War OneG.I. Lady Macbeth and World War TwoWitch Hunts ReturnThe Evil Vampire ...
