Shakespeare and the American Nation.(Book review) From: CLIO | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Shakespeare and the American Nation. By Kim C. Sturgess. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. vii + 234 pages.

The blurb on its dust jacket claims that Kim Sturgess's Shakespeare and the American Nation will tell us why "so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright," how nineteenth-century citizens "made William Shakespeare a naturalized American hero," and that by the turn of the twentieth century "for many Americans Shakespeare had become as American as George Washington." I had heard such broad claims made before when, as a high ...

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