LEADER 03603nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910458987003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-27728-X 010 $a9786613277282 010 $a0-520-94744-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520947443 035 $a(CKB)2560000000058735 035 $a(EBL)656354 035 $a(OCoLC)703138057 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466635 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284429 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466635 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10458587 035 $a(PQKB)11330407 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC656354 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30940 035 $a(DE-B1597)518684 035 $a(OCoLC)707080413 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520947443 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL656354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448578 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327728 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000058735 100 $a20100305d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aActing in the night$b[electronic resource] $eMacbeth and the places of the Civil War /$fAlexander Nemerov 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $a"Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint." 311 $a0-520-25186-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: A Drop That Dyes the Seas -- $t1. A Stone's Throw: Charlotte Cushman -- $t2. The Flame of Place: Abraham Lincoln -- $t3. The Glass Case: Interior Life in Washington, D.C. -- $t4. Acoustic Shadows: The Battle of Bristoe Station -- $t5. Center of Echoes: Castle Murray, Fauquier County, Virginia -- $t6. Ghosts: The Death of Colonel Thomas Ru?n, October 17, 1863 -- $t7. Sound and Fury: Nature in Virginia -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIllustrations -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863-with Abraham Lincoln in attendance-to explore this question and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov's inspiration is Wallace Stevens and his poem "Anecdote of the Jar," in which a single object organizes the wilderness around it in the consciousness of the poet. For Nemerov, that evening's performance of Macbeth reached across the tragedy of civil war to acknowledge the horrors and emptiness of a world it tried and ultimately failed to change. 606 $aTheater and society$zWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTheater$zWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xTheater and the war 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects 607 $aWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects 607 $aVirginia$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects 607 $aWashington (D.C.)$xSocial conditions$y19th century 607 $aVirginia$xSocial conditions$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTheater and society$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a792.0973/09034 700 $aNemerov$b Alexander$0996838 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458987003321 996 $aActing in the night$92285858 997 $aUNINA