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Shakespeare and Chautauqua |
A heady blend of adult classes, lectures, and healthy outdoor air, the Chautauqua movement started in Chautauqua in upstate New York, but it soon spread across the country. The nationwide Chautauqua circuit, as it became known, was the equivalent of a vaudeville or theater circuit, but with informative lectures instead of traveling shows. As Charlotte Canning explains, it took the magical name of Shakespeare to introduce theater into the mix.
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Charlotte Canning
Professor, theater and dance department of the University of Texas at Austin; author of The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (2005) The origins of Chautauqua
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How Shakespeare came to the Chautauqua circuit
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