AMERICANS ON SHAKESPEARE
AMERICANS ON SHAKESPEARE

Summary/Abstract: The paper is made up of two main sections: American authors about Shakespeare, including the “great battle” concerning the English bard, the doubters, who thought him either undemocratic and irrelevant, or whose authorship was questionable (Delia Bacon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Henry James), and the proShakespeareans, who took him as a founder of American thought, literature and language (Washington Irving, J. F. Cooper, Alexis de Tocqueville, R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau, W. D. Howells, T. S. Eliot, Isaac Asimov, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou); and a second one on twentieth-century academic scholarship on the relationships between America and Shakespeare (L. W. Levine, M. D. Bristol, K. C. Sturgess, the Vaughans, J. Shapiro).

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