{"product_id":"acting-in-the-night-macbeth-and-the-places-of-the-civil-war-9780520251861","title":"Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexander Nemerov\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863--with Abraham Lincoln in attendance--to explore this question and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov's inspiration is Wallace Stevens and his poem \"Anecdote of the Jar,\" in which a single object organizes the wilderness around it in the consciousness of the poet. For Nemerov, that evening's performance of \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e reached across the tragedy of civil war to acknowledge the horrors and emptiness of a world it tried and ultimately failed to change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47581618962583,"sku":"9780520251861","price":9845.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520251861.webp?v=1774920431","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/acting-in-the-night-macbeth-and-the-places-of-the-civil-war-9780520251861","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}