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The Shakespeare Riots That Changed Theatre in America Forever

Shakespearean tragedies are usually bloody affairs on stage but Shakespearean theatre has reputation for refinement and respectability. That wasn’t always the case. In his 2007 book “The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in 19th-Century America,” author Nigel Cliff describes how a feud between the English actor William Charles Macready and the first great American [...]

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