Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War

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notes introduction. a drop that dyes the seas 1. Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar” and “The Idea of Order at Key West,” Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose, ed. Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson (New York: Library of America, 1997), 60, 105. 2. Text references here and throughout the book are to act, scene, and line(s) of William Shakespeare, Macbeth, ed. Stephen Orgel (London: Penguin, 2000). 3. Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (New York: Riverhead , 1998), 525, 521–22; Sanders, quoted in Bloom, 522. 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (New York: Penguin, 1990), 26–27. The book abounds in references to Macbeth, which especially gather around the tragic figures of Miriam and Donatello in descriptions of hand washing and indelible blood stains (97, 246). 5. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964), 301, 220, 366. 6. Ibid., 527. 7. Ibid., 527, 530. 8. Ibid., 530. 9. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass (New York: Library of America, 1992), 219. 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (New York: Modern Library , 2001), 207. 11. For an account of the Astor Place Riots, see, for example, Lawrence Levine, 2 2 9 Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988), 63–68. 12. Abraham Lincoln to James Hackett, August 17, 1863, in Abraham Lincoln : Speeches and Writings, 1859–1865, ed. Don Edward Fehrenbacher (New York: Library of America, 1989), 493. For more on Lincoln’s admiration of Macbeth, see James Stevenson, “Abraham Lincoln’s A‹nity for Macbeth,” Midwest Quarterly 31 (Winter 1990): 270–79; and especially Robert Berkelman, “Lincoln’s Interest in Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Quarterly 2 (1951): 303–12. 13. See, for example, The Martyr of Liberty, a lithograph of the assassination issued ca. 1865, bearing a caption adapted from Macbeth: “This Lincoln/Hath borne his faculties so meek; has been/So clear in his great o‹ce; that his virtues/ Shall plead, trumpet-tongued, against/The deem damnation of his taking oª.” The lithograph is reproduced and discussed in Harold Holzer, Gabor Boritt, and Mark Neely, Jr., The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1984), 152–53. 14. Martin Heidegger, “The Thing” and “The Origin of the Work of Art,” Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), 172, 42–43, 53. 15. Marc Robinson, The American Play (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009), 5. one. a stone’s throw: charlotte cushman 1. Henry Bellows to Charlotte Cushman, November 7, 1863; quoted in Emma Stebbins, ed., Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of Her Life (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1972 [1879]), 186. 2. Fanny Seward diary, typescript, October 9, 1863, pp. 821–23, Rare Books and Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, New York. The quotations in the following two paragraphs are also from this source. 3. “After luncheon Mr. Gutman brought Mr. Grover the manager to see Miss Cushman. He wishes her to play at his theater—had not invited her before because a friend of hers told she was not going to play in Washington. He makes her the same oªer of everything as Mr. Ford—& has the advantage of being able to give her the support of Messrs. J.W. Wallack Jr. & E.L. Davenport, who are now playing for him” (Fanny Seward diary, typescript, October 12, 1863, p. 829). For the capacity of the theater, see “The Ovation and Benefit at Grover’s Theatre . . . ,” Daily National Republican, October 19, 1863, 2; “Opening of Grover’s New Theatre,” Daily National Republican, October 7, 1863, 2 (“The house will seat comfortably, in the permanent seats, 2500 persons, and with extra seats will accommodate over 3,000 persons with a view of the stage”). For the cast, see the satin souvenir playbill for the performance in the Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, at the Library of Congress, and the playbill pasted in the n o t e s t o p a g e s 4 – 8 2 3 0 diary of Benjamin Brown French, October 18, 1863, between pages 152 and 153, Benjamin Brown French Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. 4. “Ovation and Benefit at Grover’s,” 2. 5. Fanny Seward pocket diary, October 18, 1863, Seward House, Auburn, New York. 6. “Amusements,” New York Herald-Tribune, October 23, 1863, 5. 7. Sermon delivered by the Reverend Dr...