Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "Whose pencil-- here and there-- / Had notched the place that pleased him
  • There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it" : advising women readers, Amherst's Shakespeare's Club, and Richard Henry Dana Sr.
  • "I read a few words since I came home-- John Talbot's parting with his son, and Margaret's with Suffolk" : reading and performing Shakespeare, Fanny Kemble, and the Astor Place riot
  • "Shakespeare was never accused of writing Bacon's works" : American Shakespeare criticism, Delia Bacon, James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White
  • "He has had his future who has found Shakespeare" : American nationalism and the English dramatist
  • "Pity me, however, I have finished Ramona. Would that like Shakespeare, it were just published!" : Shakespeare and women writers
  • "Shakespeare always and forever" : Dickinson's circulation of the Bard
  • "Then I settled down to a willingness for all the rest to go but William Shakespeare. Why need we Joseph read anything else but him" : Dickinson reading Antony and Cleopatra
  • "Heard Othello at museum" : Junius Brutus Booth, Tommaso Salvini, and the performance of race
  • "Hamlet wavered for all of us" : Dickinson and Shakespearean tragedy
  • Conclusion : "Touch Shakespeare for me."