fires set in, 103–4
income inequality in, 57–58
Public Theater, see Public Theater
riots in, 58–59
New York and Brooklyn (Muller), 55
New York Classical Theatre, 211–12
New York Clipper, 108
New York Courier, 35–36
New York Daily News, 196
New York Evening Post, 5, 45–46
New York Herald, 61, 68, 88–89, 132
New York Herald Tribune, 153
New York Oratorio Society, 141
New York Post, 218
New York Shakespeare Festival, 202
New York Times, xvi, xx, xxiv, 26, 37, 47, 103, 140, 144, 155, 165, 171
and Delacorte Theater production of Julius Caesar, 206, 209
New-York Tribune, 77, 134
New York World, 104
Niblo’s Garden, 100
9/11 attacks, 176, 198
Norman, Marc, 174, 179–82, 184, 185, 191–95, 197
North, xi, 15, 16, 21, 117
Notes, Criticisms, and Correspondence upon Shakespeare’s Plays and Actors (Hackett, ed.), 21
Obama, Barack, xxix, 205
and Melrose’s production of Julius Caesar, 206–7, 210, 211
Observer, 197
O’Connell, Daniel, 3
Octavius, xvii, xviii, xx, 219
Odell, George C. D., 34
Oklahoma!, 156
Old World in the New, The (Ross), 136
Oregon Territory, 38–39, 46
Orlando, 107, 181, 194
Orsino, 107
O’Sullivan, John L., 27, 28
Otello, 64
Othello, xiii, xviii, 1–21, 24, 25, 30, 53, 54, 64, 69, 121, 122, 142
Desdemona in, 1–4, 8–14, 17–20, 24–26, 30, 31, 47
Emilia in, 40
Iago in, 9, 13, 14, 24, 25
Othello in, xii, xiii, 1–21, 24, 25, 30, 40, 46, 97, 107, 110, 202
Ottignon, Charles, 104
Our American Cousin, 96
Pacific Citizen, xii
Pacific Northwest, 38, 46
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 174, 183, 186, 187, 196
Papp, Joe, 79, 202
Parfitt, David, 174
Paris, 32, 36
Paris Commune, xvi–xvii
Parkman, George, 5–6, 8
Park Theatre, 54, 56–57
Pearl Harbor attack, xii
Penn, William, x
Perkins, Zelda, 187
Petruchio, 97, 149–52, 156, 159, 161, 164–67, 169–70
Phelps, Samuel, 33
Philadelphia Press, 113
Pickford, Mary, 167
Piscopo, Joe, 204
Pitt, Brad, 186
Pizzagate conspiracy theory, 213–14
Players Club, 138
Plutarch, 207
Poel, William, 122
polarization, Left/Right, xxv, 201–21
Polk, James K., 23, 29, 38
Pollard, Edward A., 109
Porter, Cole, 156–57, 159–65, 167–68, 170–71
Porter, Theodoric, 25, 30–31, 46
Portia, xv, xviii, 5, 125
Practical Amalgamation (Clay), 3, 4
“Prayer of the Peoples, A” (MacKaye), 140
presidential election of 2016, xv–xvi, xxi, 218–19
Preston, Mary, 110
Prospero, 107, 123, 125, 139–40, 142–43, 202
Public Ledger (Philadelphia), 54
Public Theater, xv–xviii, xxviii, 79, 205, 210–12, 219
see also Delacorte Theater
Puck, 52
Pullman workers’ strike, xiv
Punch, 101
Raleigh, Walter, 133
Rankley, Caroline, 33
Raybold, Tom, 106
Reagan, Ronald, xxix
Reconstruction, 114, 117
Rehan, Ada, 150
Reinhardt, Max, 177
Republicans, 127–28, 208, 218
Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, A (Rowlands), 125–26
Revenge, The (Young), 17
Revere House, 100
Revolutionary War, ix, x
Richard II, 95
Richard II, King, 97, 107
Richard III, xviii, 64, 86, 95–96, 98, 107
film of, 177
Richard III, King, 90, 107–8, 111
Richelieu, 99
Richmond Dispatch, 102
Right/Left divide, xxv, 201–21
Ringwald, Molly, 186
River Queen, 111–12
Roberts, Julia, 179, 182, 183
Robeson, Paul, xiii, 122
Rodgers, Richard, 156, 163
Rodney King riots, 208
Romeo and Juliet, xv, xviii, 7, 32–33, 64, 86, 104, 177
films of, 177
Juliet in, 2, 5, 32, 33, 35, 40–41, 44
Lewinsky and, 189
Romeo in, 32–36, 38–47, 43, 44, 93, 101, 104, 107
in Shakespeare in Love, 177–81
West Side Story, 171
Rooney, Mickey, 177
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 154
Roosevelt, Theodore, 131
Rosalind, 35, 181, 194
Roscius, Quintus, 17
Ross, Edward Alsworth, 136
Rowlands, Richard, 125–26
Rush, Geoffrey, 196
Rush, George, 196
Russia, 218–19
Rynders, Isaiah, 62–63, 66, 70–72, 75
Saint Louis: A Civic Masque (MacKaye), 137
Salem Media, 204
same-sex love, 40, 179–82, 188, 193–97
Saturday Night Live, xviii, 204
Scalia, Antonin, xxix
Scalise, Steve, 215–16
“School Boy Hamlet, The” (Mori), xii–xiii
Scoloker, Anthony, 51
Scott, William, Lessons in Elocution, x, 86–87, 121
Scribner’s Magazine, 133
Sedgwick, Elizabeth Dwight, 12
Selby, Charles, The Marble Heart, 97, 107
September 11 attacks, 176, 198
Seward, Fanny, 116
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey et al.), 163
Shakespeare and America (Bristol), 133
Shakespeare and the Founders of Liberty in America (Gayley), 134–35
Shakespeare festivals, 202
“Shakespeare in American Communities” program, 203
Shakespeare in Love, 175–98
Shakespeare in the Park, see Delacorte Theater
Shakespeare Left and Right (Kamps), 201
Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration, 122, 131, 139, 141
Caliban by the Yellow Sands (MacKaye), 120, 122–23, 137–45
Shapiro, Ben, 217
Sharp, Cecil, 141–42
Shaw, Elizabeth Smith, 11
Sheaffer, Laura, 204–5, 206
Shepard, Matthew, 195
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 99, 103
Shiel, Richard, 107
Shylock, xii, xiii, xv, 92, 93, 97, 107, 125
Siddons, Sarah, 4, 5, 10, 11
Sign of the Times (Warsaw, KY),114–15
Sill, Richard, 132
Sinclair, Samuel, 96
Sir Thomas More, 126
slavery, xi, 3, 15–16, 18, 38, 55–56, 105, 110, 193
abolition and, 16, 17, 19–21, 27, 59, 62, 68
Adams and, 3, 12, 15–20
Kemble and, 12–14
Lincoln’s emancipation of, 102, 105, 117
Mexican-Am
erican War and, 25, 38, 92
sexual relations and, 14
Slidell, John, 29
Smith, William Stephens, 11
social media, 214, 218–19
Facebook, 212, 213, 218
Instagram, 212
Twitter, 210, 212, 218
Soldiers’ Home, 95
South, xi, xiii, xv–xvi, 15–17, 21, 24, 109–10, 117
Mexican-American War and, 27
see also Confederacy
Southern Illustrated News, 101
Spartacus, 53
Spewack, Bella, 156–65, 167, 170, 171
Spewack, Sam, 161, 162, 171
Spirit of the Times, 44, 60
Spring Election Riot, 58
Stamp Act Riot, 58
Stanton, Edwin, 89
“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” 137, 144
Starr Report, 189–90
Stebbins, Emma, 41
Sternberg, Ruth, 217
Stevens, John Paul, xiv
Stoll, Corey, xviii
Stoll, E. E., 135
Stoppard, Tom, 175, 179, 182–87, 190–92, 194, 196, 197
Strahan, Edward, 75
Stranger, The, 53
Stuart, John Todd, 89
Stuart, Richard, 83, 84
Studies in Shakespeare (Preston), 110
Subber, Arnold Saint, 152, 156, 158, 160–62, 170
Subkoff, Tara, 187
Substitute for War, A (MacKaye), 137
Sullivan, Maxine, 157
Sully, Rosalie, 40
Sumner, Charles, 99–100, 112
Sun, 57
Supreme Court, U.S., 3, 181
Swingin’ the Dream, 157
Taft, William Howard, 131
Talk, 196–97
Tamer Tamed, The (Fletcher), 149
Taming of the Shrew, The, viii, 149–56, 158, 166–67
Induction of, 151
Katherine in, 149–52, 156, 159, 161, 163–70
Kiss Me, Kate, 148, 152, 155–72
Petruchio in, 97, 149–52, 156, 159, 161, 164–67, 169–70
spanking scene in, 165–66, 170
Tappan, Arthur, 3
Tappan, Lewis, 59
Taylor, John Madison, 136–37
Taylor, William R., 108
Tea Party, 207
Telegraph, 74
Tempest, The, 121–22, 124, 125, 132–35, 139–40, 146
Antonio in, 125
Ariel in, 125, 139
Caliban in, 122–23, 125, 133, 136–37, 139–40, 146, 202
Caliban by the Yellow Sands (MacKaye), 120, 122–23, 137–45
Miranda in, 125, 139, 140, 142–43
Prospero in, 107, 123, 125, 139–40, 142–43, 202
Tenured Radicals (Kimball), 201
terrorism, 214, 215
9/11 attacks, 176, 198
Texas, 23–25, 27–30, 39, 46
Texas Republican, 115
“They Wait for Us,” 29
Thomas, Clarence, 181
Thompson, John Douglas, xviii, xxii
Thurman, Uma, 187
Times (London), 33, 39
Timrod, Henry, 109
Titania, 61
Titus Andronicus, xxvi, 208
Tocqueville, Alexis de, x, 60
Townsend, George Alfred, 115
Trebonius, xx
Tree, Ellen, 33
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, 122
Troilus and Cressida, 143
Trump, Donald, xviii, 203–6, 209, 218
Access Hollywood tape and, xxi–xxii
and Delacorte production of Julius Caesar, xviii, xx–xxiv, xxix, 204–6, 209–20
election of, xv–xvi, xxi, 218–19
Trump, Donald, Jr., 210–11
Trump, Eric, 210–11
Trump, Ivanka, 79
Trump, Melania, xviii, xxii, 204
Turner, Nat, 16
Twelfth Night, xiii, 35, 194, 202
Shakespeare in Love and, 182, 183, 185, 190, 191, 194
Twitter, 210, 212, 218
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 177, 196–97
Tybalt, 32, 36
Union Theater, 30
Universal Pictures, 179, 182, 183
University of Chicago, 188
U.S. News & World Report, 155
Vandenhoff, George, 35, 36
Venice Film Festival, 187
Vestvali, Felicita, 33
Veteran Comes Back, The (Waller), 153
Victoria, Queen, 42
Viele, Egbert L., 89
Vietnam War, viii
Vining, Fanny, 33
Viola, 35
Wallace, Frances Todd, 88
Wallack, James, 97
Wallack, Lester, 74
Waller, Willard, 153–54, 171
Walnut Street Theatre, 53
Walsh, Mike, 75–76
Ward, Robert DeCourcy, 124
Warner Bros., 177
War of 1812, x, 23, 38, 132
Washington, Denzel, 202
Washington, George, xviii, 146
Washington Post, 189
Washington Theatre, 97
Watson, Harry, 31
Watson, Joseph, 132
Webster, Margaret, 122
Weinstein, Bob, 196–97
Weinstein, Harvey, 174, 175, 183, 185–87, 196–97
Welles, Orson, xviii–xx
West Side Story, 171
Whigs, 62, 69, 77
Whitman, Walt, 5
Who’s Got Macready, or A Race to Boston, 64
Wife, The (Knowles), 24, 31
Wilder, Thornton, 156
Wilentz, Sean, 62
Williams, Pete, 68
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, 177
Willingham, Patrick, 210
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 78–79
Wilson, Daniel, 122
Wilson, John, 164
Wilson, Woodrow, 131, 144
Winfrey, Oprah, xxvii
Winter, William, 35, 47, 150, 154
Winter Garden, 100, 103
Winthrop, Robert Charles, 28
Wise, Henry, 3
women, 150, 152–55, 166, 170, 181
domestic violence and, 166, 169
Woodhull, Caleb Smith, 71–74, 76, 77
Woodward, W. E., 26
Wooster, Louise, 107
World War I, 134
World War II, xiii, xxviii, 121, 122, 152–53, 155, 170
marriages during, 155
Pearl Harbor attack in, xii
veterans of, 153, 155, 166
Wright, Edward Sterling, 142
Wyndham, Charles, 108
Young, Edward, 17
YouTube, 200, 205, 212
Zeffirelli, Franco, 177
Zwick, Edward, 174, 179, 183–84
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Shapiro is currently the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. In 2011, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written several award-winning books on Shakespeare, and his most recent book, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, was awarded the James Tait Black Prize as well as the Sheridan Morley Prize. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books, among other places. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He serves on the board of directors o
f the Royal Shakespeare Company, and he is currently the Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at the Public Theater in New York City.
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