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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.
Acting in the Night; MacBeth and the Places of the Civil War by Nemerov, Alexander
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Berkeley: University of California Press 978-0-520-25186-1 [978-0-520-25186-1] 2010. (Hardcover) 299pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. "What can the performance of a single play on one night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of MacBeth in Washington, D.C., 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". Book about Abraham Lincoln & MacBeth--Play. Time Period 1863. (History--United States, American Civil War, History--United States, Plays, Politics--United States, Presidents--United States).
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- Keywords History--United States, American Civil War, History--United States, Plays, Politics--United States, Presidents--United States
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