Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War

by Alexander Nemerov

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520251865
• ISBN13: 9780520251861
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.6"