-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
Black Americans in Performance
The Great Outdoors
Shakespeare Musicals
Another Opening, Another Show
Swingin' the Dream, the Lost Musical
What Makes Shakespeare Musicals "American"
Shakespeare in Hollywood
If Music Be the Food of Love...

Swingin' the Dream. Center Theatre, November 29 - December 9, 1939. Book by Gilbert Sheldes and Erik Charell. Staged by Erik Charell. Dialogue directed by Philip Loeb. Dances by Agnes DeMille. Shown: Louis Armstrong. © Lucien Aigner/CORBIS.

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