-Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare in American Life

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STAGE AND SCREEN

Episode: Shakespeare Becomes American
On Stage
Familiar Faces
Staging Shakespeare
On Stage Yesterday
Shakespeare on the Early American Stage
The Astor Place Riot
Starring Roles
Edwin Forrest
Edwin Forrest and Democracy
Ira Aldridge
Ira Aldridge in Europe
James Hackett
Charlotte Cushman
Edwin Booth
Helena Modjeska
Ada Rehan
Julia Marlowe
E.H. Sothern
John Barrymore
Paul Robeson
Going on Tour
Black Americans in Performance
The Great Outdoors
Shakespeare Musicals
Shakespeare in Hollywood
If Music Be the Food of Love...

Carl Van Vechten. Portrait of Paul Robeson as Othello. Silver gelatin photographic print, 1944. Estate of Carl Van Vechten and the Carl Van Vechten Trust. Shelfmark ART 251518. Folger Shakespeare Library.

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