Shakespeare in Canada : A World Elsewhere?
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (503 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Shakespeare in Canada: 'a world elsewhere'? -- Part One: Beginnings: Institutionalizing Shakespeare -- 1 Pioneer Shakespeare Culture: Reverend Henry Scadding and His Shakespeare Display at the 1892 Toronto Industrial Exhibition -- 2 The Imperial Theme: The Shakespeare Society of Toronto, 1928-1969 -- 3 'A Stage for the Word': Shakespeare on CBC Radio, 1947-1955 -- 4 Stratford and the Aspirations for a Canadian National Theatre -- Part Two: Shakespeare on Stage -- 5 Shakespeare Canadiens at the Stratford Festival -- 6 A National Hamlet? Stratford's Legacy of Twentieth-Century Productions -- 7 'Le Re-making' of le grand Will: Shakespeare in Francophone Quebec -- 8 Learning to Curse in Accurate Iambics: Shakespeare in Newfoundland -- 9 Liberal Shakespeare and Illiberal Critiques: Necessary Angel's King Lear -- Part Three: Critical Debates and Traditions -- 10 Continuity and Contradiction: University Actors Meet the Universal Bard -- 11 Canadian Bacon -- 12 Canada, Negative Capability, and Cymbeline -- 13 Frye's Shakespeare, Frye's Canada -- Part Four: Reimagining Shakespeare -- 14 Nation and/as Adaptation: Shakespeare, Canada, and Authenticity -- 15 Undead and Unsafe: Adapting Shakespeare (in Canada) -- 16 Normand Chaurette's Les Reines: Shakespeare and the Modern in the Alchemical Oven -- 17 Othello in Three Times -- Afterword: Relocating Shakespeare, Redefining Canada -- Appendix: Research Opportunities in Canadian Shakespeare -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
The first work to engage Shakespeare with distinctly Canadian debates addressing nationalism, separatism, cultural appropriation, cultural nationalism, feminism, and postcolonialism.
9781442679870
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