“Put money in thy purse. Follow thou the wars”: Othello, the Mexican–American War, and Manifest Destiny

IF 0.3 3区 艺术学 0 THEATER THEATRE SURVEY Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI:10.1017/s0040557424000115
Charlotte M. Canning
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In the winter of 1845–6 the United States Army languished on the border waiting for an opportunity to provoke what would be the Mexican–American War, or, as the Mexicans would come to call it, La Intervención Americana. To break the dull monotony, the army turned to theatre. In January, Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant was cast as Desdemona in a production staged for the troops and the local community. Grant would later be the victorious general in the Civil War and the eighteenth president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. He was not yet that person. In 1846 he was a twenty-four-year-old, newly commissioned officer, only three years out of the US Military Academy. His peers, a cohort of junior officers who would become the senior military leadership on both sides of the Civil War, were also actors in the production, as well as its producers. The anecdote is humorous in large part because the Grant of national record and memory is the least Desdemona-like figure anyone can conceive. It has been repeated multiple times across the nineteenth century and still holds in the imagination almost two hundred years later.

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"把钱放进你的钱包。跟着战争走":奥赛罗》、美墨战争和 "天命 "论
1845-6 年的冬天,美国陆军在边境上苟延残喘,伺机挑起美墨战争,墨西哥人后来称之为 "美墨干涉"(La Intervención Americana)。为了打破枯燥乏味的单调生活,美国陆军开始演戏。1 月,尤利西斯-格兰特少尉在为部队和当地社区演出的剧目中扮演苔丝狄蒙娜。格兰特后来成为南北战争的常胜将军,并在 1869 年至 1877 年间担任美国第十八任总统。他当时还不是这样的人。1846年,他还是一名24岁的新晋军官,从美国军事学院毕业才三年。他的同龄人,即后来成为南北战争双方高级军事领导人的一批下级军官,也是这部作品的演员和制作人。这则轶事之所以幽默,在很大程度上是因为国家记录和记忆中的格兰特是人们所能想象的最不像德斯多德蒙娜的人物。它在整个十九世纪被多次重复,近两百年后仍在人们的想象中占据一席之地。
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