Shakespeare in America - Vaughan, Alden T. (Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, New York City) a Vaughan, Virginia Mason (Professor of English at Clark University, Worcester, MA)

This book is a lively account of how American culture has embraced the English playwright and poet from colonial times to the present. It ranges widely, following the story of Shakespeare's reception in America from the scholarly - criticism, editions of the plays, and curricula - to the light-hearted - burlesques, musical comedies, and kitsch.