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Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-Century American Dream: The Making of an American Identity
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The account of the relationship between Shakespeare and the nineteenth- century American Dream in terms of the making of an American identity is designed to show a traditionally American belief that Shakespeare gave voice to republican values against British aristocracy, and to explore the ways in which Shakespeare has been assimilated to American culture from the nation’s inception to the present day. The discussion consists of two parts. The first part demonstrates in line of the nineteenth-century tradition that Henry V’s “Saint Crispin’s day” speech, with its lines “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” has been quoted in America in conjunction with the issues of the nation’s patriotic identity and pride. Henry V was included in the distribution of Armed Services Editions to US troops in 2002 when the country declared the War on Terrorism after the September 11 attacks. This is seen as an illustrative example of the traditional American use of the familiarity with Shakespeare to talk about the crisis. The second contends that Shakespeare provided the way for the formulation of a national identity by situating himself in a theatrical battleground for intense rivalry between American and British star actors and actresses in the early nineteenth-century, and then by facilitating the happy symbiosis between them in the late nineteenth-century. The paper stresses that the nineteenth-century establishment of Shakespeare’s cultural authority still have effect on the American life in spite of all the powerful voices of alternative Shakespeares at the present time.
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The account of the relationship between Shakespeare and the nineteenth- century American Dream in terms of the making of an American identity is designed to show a traditionally American belief that Shakespeare gave voice to republican values against British aristocracy, and to explore the ways in which Shakespeare has been assimilated to American culture from the nation’s inception to the present day. The discussion consists of two parts. The first part demonstrates in line of the nineteenth-century tradition that Henry V’s “Saint Crispin’s day” speech, with its lines “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” has been quoted in America in conjunction with the issues of the nation’s patriotic identity and pride. Henry V was included in the distribution of Armed Services Editions to US troops in 2002 when the country declared the War on Terrorism after the September 11 attacks. This is seen as an illustrative example of the traditional American use of the familiarity with Shakespeare to talk about the crisis. The second contends that Shakespeare provided the way for the formulation of a national identity by situating himself in a theatrical battleground for intense rivalry between American and British star actors and actresses in the early nineteenth-century, and then by facilitating the happy symbiosis between them in the late nineteenth-century. The paper stresses that the nineteenth-century establishment of Shakespeare’s cultural authority still have effect on the American life in spite of all the powerful voices of alternative Shakespeares at the present time.
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