Anne Pemberton wrote: > On an online forum, we are discussin the book The Shakespeare Riots, > and a discussent who is either British or Australian, seems surprised > that Shakespeare was so well attended in the "antebellum" period. He > was under the impression that after the Revolutionary War, Americans > tended to discard Shakespeare and consider his works unworthy of study. > > Can anyone elighten me as to whether the works of Shakespeare were > typically a part of libraries in Virginia between the Revolutionary > and Civil Wars? > > Thanks muchly for shedding any light on this issue! > > Anne > > Anne Pemberton > [log in to unmask] > http://www.erols.com/apembert > http://www.educationalsynthesis.org Anne, A general answer to your question (i.e., not specific to Virginia but covering the whole country) may be found in Lawrence Levine's /Highbrow/Lowbrow/. Doug Deal History/SUNY Oswego.