Celebrates the extraordinary English poets influence on American culturewhether high, low, or middlebrowto mark the 150th anniversary of Henry Folgers birth and the 75th anniversary of the great library he and Emily created for Shakespearean scholarship.

Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan

Foreword / Gail Kern Paster
Introduction / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan
Shakespeare Discovers America; America Discovers Shakespeare / Alden T. Vaughan
Making Shakespeare American: Shakespeare's Dissemination in Nineteenth-Century America / Virginia Mason Vaughan
Playing with (a) Difference: Early Black Shakespearean Actors, Blackface and Whiteface / Francesca T. Royster
Shakespeare Film in America: O Brave New World of Bardolatry! / Kenneth S. Rothwell
Shakespeare and the American Musical / Irene G. Dash
Jazzing Up Shakespeare / Douglas M. Lanier
American Shakespeare Festivals / Yu Jin Ko
Duty and Enjoyment: The Folgers as Shakespeare Collectors in the Gilded Age / Georgianna Ziegler
Catalogue of the Exhibition / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan
Interlude: American Scrapbooks / Leigh Anne Palmer
Notes on Contributors