The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America
by Nigel Cliff
336 pages
Telling the incredible story of Shakespeare in America, this book focuses on the Astor Place Riot, an event that was started over who was a better Macbeth, an American or a brit. Almost unbelievably this event led to the near destruction of the theatre, the arrest of some of the perpetrators, and the deaths of some others. Come for the play, stay for the beatings.
- Tim
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