The Man in the Box (extract from The Shakespeare Riots)
One of the bloodiest incidents in nineteenth-century New York, the so-called Astor Place Riot of 10 May 1849, had its unlikely origins in a long-simmering grudge between the two leading Shakespearean actors of the age, William Charles Macready and Edwin Forrest. The riot resulted in the unprecedente...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2009-04-01
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| Series: | 19 |
| Online Access: | http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1530/ |