Shakespeare and Baseball

Reflections of a Shakespeare Professor and Detroit Tigers Fan

Samuel Crowl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2024
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2556-5 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare and baseball are monuments of high and popular culture: Shakespeare is the most widely read and staged playwright in the world, and baseball is America’s game. Professor Samuel Crowl, a prize-winning teacher and international scholar of Shakespeare on film, explores his life as a champion of the Bard and a fan of the Detroit Tigers. He saw his first Tigers game in the summer of 1950 (Hal Newhouser beat the Chicago White Sox) and his first Shakespeare play in 1953 (Alec Guinness as Richard III at Ontario’s Stratford Festival) and has spent almost seventy-five years enjoying and writing about the pleasures of play that each provides.
Shakespeare and Baseball is an unusual hybrid combining Crowl’s education as a Shakespeare and baseball fan, the resonances he perceives between the playwright and the game, the unexpected pleasures both forms of play have afforded his extended family of children and grandchildren, and a selection from the seventy letters he has written to them about Tigers games he has seen, from old Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, and ballparks in Cleveland.
Crowl finds unexpected connections between his twin subjects, including beer, which funded and fueled both the establishment of Major League baseball clubs, like the Yankees and Cardinals, and the creation of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, visited by Shakespeare enthusiasts from around the world. A deeper linkage is that Shakespeare’s festive comedies kept the ideas, rituals, and customs of rural England alive in the dense urban world of Elizabethan London, just as baseball kept the image of the garden-the rural American past in which the game took shape-alive in the twentieth-century American city. The book is written in a style that captures what one reader has called Crowl’s “warm, rich midwestern voice” and will be of interest to fans of the game and of the Bard, from high schoolers on up.

Samuel Crowl is trustee professor of English emeritus at Ohio University. During his long and diverse career, he received several honors for distinguished teaching, published six books on Shakespeare in performance on stage and screen, served for a decade as dean of University College, and was awarded an honorary degree at the university's two hundredth commencement in 2015. He still serves as a founding fellow of the Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: The 1940s and the 1950s

Shakespeare and Baseball I

Shakespeare and Baseball II

Part 2: The 1960s

Shakespeare and Baseball III

The 1968 World Series

Part 3: The 1970s

Shakespeare and Baseball IV

Part 4: The 1980s

The Perfect Game

Shakespeare and Baseball V

The 1984 World Series

Shakespeare and Baseball VI

Tiger Letter #1

Part 5: The 1990s

Shakespeare and Baseball VII

Tiger Letter #2

Shakespeare and Baseball VIII

Tiger Letter #3

Part 6: The 2000s

Shakespeare and Baseball IX

The 2006 Playoffs and World Series

Tiger Letter #4

Tiger Letter #5

Part 7: The 2010s

Tiger Letter #6

The 2012 Playoffs and World Series

Shakespeare and Baseball X

Tiger Letter #7

Shakespeare and Baseball XI

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	22.02.2024
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8214-2556-0 / 0821425560
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2556-5 / 9780821425565
Zustand	Neuware