How Shakespeare Became An American Gold Standard by Artsjournal

The 17th-century puritans who founded the first English settler colonies were "rabidly anti-theatrical", and colonial insurrectionists rejecting the motherland in the 18th century would not necessarily have embraced the quintessential English playwright. "How Shakespeare won over America in the early 19th century is something of a mystery." " New Statesman

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