Shakespeare on Safari
Daniel J. Heisey2025-06-17T04:13:46-05:00In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville noted in Democracy in America that as he traveled through America, “there is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare,” adding that he first read “the feudal drama of Henry V” in a log cabin. While what could be called the natural habitat [...]