Shakespeare and Canada : Remembrance of Ourselves

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Brisset, Annie

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TextSeries: Reappraisals: Canadian Writers | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ottawa University of Ottawa Press 2017Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (1 Online-Ressource 208 Seiten)Content type:

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0776624431
9780776624433

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Summary: As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare's influence in Canada?Summary: Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Shakespeare and Canada: "Remembrance of Ourselves"--"Theatre is not a nursing home": Merchants of Venice of The Stratford Festival -- Intercultural Performance and The Stratford Festival as Global Tourist Place: Leon Rubin's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night -- Stratford, Shakespeare, and J.D. Barnett -- Counterfactual History at The Stratford Festival: Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex and Peter Hinton's The Swanne -- "Who's There?": Slings & Arrows' Audience Dynamics -- Race, National Identity, and the Hauntological Ethics of Slings & Arrows -- Performing "Indigenous Shakespeare" in Canada: The Tempest and The Death of a Chief -- Shakespeare, a Late Bloomer on the Quebec Stage -- Mediatic Shakespeare: McLuhan and the Bard -- Shakespeare and the "Cultural Lag" of Canadian Stratford in Alice Munro's "Tricks"--Beyond (or Beneath) the Folio: Neil Freeman's Shakespearean Acting Pedagogy in Context -- Rhyme and Reason: Shakespeare's Exceptional Status and Role in Canadian Education -- The Truth About Stories About Shakespeare ... In Canada? -- Contributors -- Index

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As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare's influence in Canada?

Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Shakespeare and Canada: "Remembrance of Ourselves"--"Theatre is not a nursing home": Merchants of Venice of The Stratford Festival -- Intercultural Performance and The Stratford Festival as Global Tourist Place: Leon Rubin's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night -- Stratford, Shakespeare, and J.D. Barnett -- Counterfactual History at The Stratford Festival: Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex and Peter Hinton's The Swanne -- "Who's There?": Slings & Arrows' Audience Dynamics -- Race, National Identity, and the Hauntological Ethics of Slings & Arrows -- Performing "Indigenous Shakespeare" in Canada: The Tempest and The Death of a Chief -- Shakespeare, a Late Bloomer on the Quebec Stage -- Mediatic Shakespeare: McLuhan and the Bard -- Shakespeare and the "Cultural Lag" of Canadian Stratford in Alice Munro's "Tricks"--Beyond (or Beneath) the Folio: Neil Freeman's Shakespearean Acting Pedagogy in Context -- Rhyme and Reason: Shakespeare's Exceptional Status and Role in Canadian Education -- The Truth About Stories About Shakespeare ... In Canada? -- Contributors -- Index

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