The pausing American loyalist / Anonymous
Epilogue to Coriolanus / Jonathan M. Sewall
The tragic genius of Shakspeare: an ode / Peter Markoe
Letter to John Quincy Adams / John Adams
Stratford on Avon / Washington Irving
Prize ode / Charles Sprague
The Character of Desdemona / John Quincy Adams
Hazlitt's characters of Shakspeare / Edgar Allan Poe
First impressions of Miss Cushman's Romeo / J.M.W
Indians of North America / Maungwudaus
Account of the terrific and fatal riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House / Anonymous
Shakspeare, or, the Poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hawthorne and his Mosses / Herman Melville
Ira Aldridge / William Wells Brown
Recollections of a gifted woman / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Drama's vitallest expression is the common day / Emily Dickinson
Address delivered at the opening of the New Theatre at Richmond / Henry Timrod
Letter to James H. Hackett / Abraham Lincoln
The killing of Julius Caesar localized / Mark Twain
Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration, April 23, 1864 / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Letter to the National Intelligencer / John Wilkes Booth
The Coming storm / Herman Melville
Shylock, a burlesque / G.W.H. Griffin
Othello / Mary Preston
In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg / Frederick Wadsworth Loring
What lurks behind Shakspere's historical plays? / Walt Whitman
The art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet / William Winter
Shakespeare / William Dean Howells
From Between the acts: Antony and Cleopatra / Willa Cather
Shakespeare's Americanisms / Henry Cabot Lodge
A modern Lear / Jane Addams
The Hiartville Shakespeare Club / Belle Marshall Locke
The birthplace / Henry James
Autobiographical dictation / Mark Twain
Shakespeare: made in America / George Santayana
Out, Out / Robert Frost
Shakespeare's heroines as human beings / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Heart of the race / Charles Mills Gayley
Hamlet and his problems / T.S. Eliot
To Mark Anthony in heaven / William Carlos Williams
Shakespeares of 1922 / Lorenz Hart and Morrie Ryskind
John Barrymore's Hamlet / Stark Young
Shakespeare for America / George F. Whicher
Shakespeare and American culture / Joseph Quincy Adams
The Macbeth murder mystery / James Thurber
Orson Welles's Julius Caesar / Sidney B. Whipple
Japanese Hamlet / Toshio Mori
Shakespeare in Harlem / Langston Hughes
Paul Robeson's Othello / Samuel Sillen
Laurence Olivier's Henry V / James Agee
Preface to G.I. Hamlet / Maurice Evans
Brush up your Shakespeare / Cole Porter
The abuse of greatness / Hollis Alpert
The immortal bard / Isaac Asimov
Shakespeare's last word: justice and redemption / John Berryman
Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin daddis / Lord Buckley
Carlus / Hyam Plutzik
General Macbeth / Mary McCarthy
After dark / Adrienne Rich
Orson Welles: there ain't no way / Pauline Kael
From Run-through / John Houseman
Bus soft ... real soft / Woody Allen
Caliban in blue / Walter McDonald
Cora Lee / Gloria Naylor
West Side Story / Dramatists Guild Landmark Symposium
The Shakespeare marathon / Frank Rich and Joseph Papp
Address to the Royal Society of Arts / Sam Wanamaker
Shakespeare in Iceland / Jane Smiley
Actors / Cynthia Ozick
Daily grind / B.J. Ward
From NETS / Jen Bervin.