{"product_id":"acting-in-the-night-alexander-nemerov-9780520251861","title":"Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War","description":"What 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Nemerov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520251865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520251861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2011","brand":"Alexander Nemerov","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45898199531775,"sku":"9780520251861","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc474d75-990a-4449-8473-34750f676e41.jpg?v=1721375738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/acting-in-the-night-alexander-nemerov-9780520251861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}