The pausing American loyalist / Anonymous --
Epilogue to Coriolanus / Jonathan M. Sewall --
The tragic genius of Shakspeare: an ode / Peter Markoe --
Letter to John Quincy Adams / John Adams --
Stratford on Avon / Washington Irving --
Prize ode / Charles Sprague --
The Character of Desdemona / John Quincy Adams --
Hazlitt's characters of Shakspeare / Edgar Allan Poe --
First impressions of Miss Cushman's Romeo / J. M. W --
Indians of North America / Maungwudaus --
Account of the terrific and fatal riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House / Anonymous --
Shakspeare, or, the Poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Hawthorne and his Mosses / Herman Melville --
Ira Aldridge / William Wells Brown --
Recollections of a gifted woman / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Drama's vitallest expression is the common day / Emily Dickinson --
Address delivered at the opening of the New Theatre at Richmond / Henry Timrod --
Letter to James H. Hackett / Abraham Lincoln --
The killing of Julius Caesar localized / Mark Twain --
Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration, April 23, 1864 / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Letter to the National Intelligencer / John Wilkes Booth --
The Coming storm / Herman Melville --
Shylock, a burlesque / G. W. H. Griffin --
Othello / Mary Preston --
In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg / Frederick Wadsworth Loring --
What lurks behind Shakspeare's historical plays? / Walt Whitman --
The art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet / William Winter --
Shakespeare / William Dean Howells --
From Between the acts: Antony and Cleopatra / Willa Cather --
Shakespeare's Americanisms / Henry Cabot Lodge --
A modern Lear / Jane Addams --
The Hiartville Shakespeare Club / Belle Marshall Locke --
The birthplace / Henry James --
Autobiographical dictation / Mark Twain --
Shakespeare: made in America / George Santayana --
Out, Out / Robert Frost --
Shakespeare's heroines as human beings / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
Heart of the race / Charles Mills Gayley --
Hamlet and his problems / T. S. Eliot --
To Mark Anthony in heaven / William Carlos Williams --
Shakespeares of 1922 / Lorenz Hart and Morrie Ryskind --
John Barrymore's Hamlet / Stark Young --
Shakespeare for America / George F. Whicher --
Shakespeare and American culture / Joseph Quincy Adams --
The Macbeth murder mystery / James Thurber --
Orson Welles's Julius Caesar / Sidney B. Whipple --
Japanese Hamlet / Toshio Mori --
Shakespeare in Harlem / Langston Hughes --
Paul Robeson's Othello / Samuel Sillen --
Laurence Olivier's Henry V / James Agee --
Preface to G. I. Hamlet / Maurice Evans --
Brush up your Shakespeare / Cole Porter --
The abuse of greatness / Hollis Alpert --
The immortal bard / Isaac Asimov --
Shakespeare's last word: justice and redemption / John Berryman --
Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin daddis / Lord Buckley --
General Macbeth / Mary McCarthy --
After dark / Adrienne Rich --
Orson Welles: there ain't no way / Pauline Kael --
From Run-through / John Houseman --
Bus soft ... real soft / Woody Allen --
Caliban in blue / Walter McDonald --
Cora Lee / Gloria Naylor --
West Side Story / Dramatists Guild Landmark Symposium --
The Shakespeare marathon / Frank Rich and Joseph Papp --
Address to the Royal Society of Arts / Sam Wanamaker --
Shakespeare in Iceland / Jane Smiley --
Actors / Cynthia Ozick --
Daily grind / B. J. Ward --
