Canadian Shakespeare

Author : Diana Brydon,Irene Rima Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802036554

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Shakespeare in Canada by Diana Brydon,Irene Rima Makaryk Pdf

Is there a distinctly Canadian Shakespeare? What is the status and function of Shakespeare in various locations within the nation: at Stratford, on CBC radio, in regional and university theatres, in Canadian drama and popular culture? Shakespeare in Canada brings insights from a little explored but extensive archive to contemporary debates about the cultural uses of Shakespeare and what it means to be Canadian. Canada's long history of Shakespeare productions and reception, including adaptations, literary reworkings, and parodies, is analysed and contextualized within the four sections of the book. A timely addition to the growing field that studies the transnational reach of Shakespeare across cultures, this collection examines the political and cultural agendas invoked not only by Shakespeare's plays, but also by his very name. In part a historical and regional survey of Shakespeare in performance, adaptation, and criticism, this is the first work to engage Shakespeare with distinctly Canadian debates addressing nationalism, separatism, cultural appropriation, cultural nationalism, feminism, and postcolonialism.

Author : Judith Nasby,Daniel Fischlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122859858

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Shakespeare--made in Canada by Judith Nasby,Daniel Fischlin Pdf

The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre's exhibition explores contemporary Canadian adaptations in theatre, pop media, and visual arts in a demonstration of the Shakespeare effect in Canadian culture. It brings together for the first time hundreds of rare artifacts, including the Canadian-owned Sanders portrait, contemporary Canadian theatre designs, Shakespeare in French Canada, contemporary Aboriginal adaptations of Shakespeare, new portraiture, an innovative learning commons for youth, as well as new and archival material from the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project, the L. W. Conolly Theatre Archives (University of Guelph), and the Stratford Festival of Canada.

Author : Irena R. Makaryk,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776624433

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Shakespeare and Canada by Irena R. Makaryk,Kathryn Prince Pdf

Shakespeare in Canada is the result of a collective desire to explore the role that Shakespeare has played in Canada over the past two hundred years, but also to comprehend the way our country’s culture has influenced our interpretation of his literary career and heritage. What function does Shakespeare serve in Canada today? How has he been reconfigured in different ways for particular Canadian contexts? The authors of this book attempt to answer these questions while imagining what the future might hold for William Shakespeare in Canada. Covering the Stratford Festival, the cult CBC television program Slings and Arrows, major Canadian critics such as Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, the influential acting teacher Neil Freiman, the rise of Québécois and First Nation approaches to Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s place in secondary schools today, this collection reflects the diversity and energy of Shakespeare’s afterlife in Canada. Collectively, the authors suggest that Shakespeare continues to offer Canadians “remembrance of ourselves.” This is a refreshingly original and impressive contribution to Shakespeare studies—a considerable achievement in any work on the history of one of the central figures in the western literary canon.

Author : Susan Lynne Knutson
Publisher : Critical Perspectives on Canad
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0887548938

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Canadian Shakespeare by Susan Lynne Knutson Pdf

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and crities who have traced the coming-into-prominence of a vibrant theatrical community in English Canada. --Book Jacket.

Author : Jennifer Drouin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442669703

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Shakespeare in Quebec by Jennifer Drouin Pdf

In Shakespeare in Québec, Jennifer Drouin analyses representations of nation and gender in Shakespearean adaptations written in Québec since the Quiet Revolution. Using postcolonial and gender theory, Drouin traces the evolution of discourses of nation and gender in Québec from the Conquest of New France to the present, and she elaborates a theory of adaptation specific to Shakespeare studies. Drouin’s book explains why Québécois playwrights seem so obsessed with rewriting “le grand Will,” what changes they make to the Shakespearean text, and how the differences between Shakespeare and the adaptations engage the nationalist, feminist, and queer concerns of Québec society. Close readings from ten plays investigate the radical changes to content that allowed Québécois playwrights to advocate for political change and contribute to the hot debates of the Quiet Revolution, the 1970 October Crisis, the 1980 and 1995 referenda, the rise of feminism, and the emergence of AIDS. Drouin reveals not only how Shakespeare has been adapted in Québec but also how Québécois adaptations have evolved in response to changes in the political climate. As a critical analysis in English of rich but largely ignored French plays, Shakespeare in Québec bridges Canada’s “two solitudes.”

Author : Irene Rima Makaryk,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 077662444X

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Shakespeare in Canada by Irene Rima Makaryk,Kathryn Prince Pdf

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?

Author : Richard Paul Knowles
Publisher : Brussels : P.I.E.-Peter Lang
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112585851

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Shakespeare and Canada by Richard Paul Knowles Pdf

This book brings together essays on the Stratford Festival, on Shakespeare in Quebec, and on Canadian dramatic adaptations of Hamlet and Othello by Ric Knowles, one of Canada's leading drama and theatre scholars. The essays discuss such major figures as Robert Lepage, Ann Marie MacDonald, Djanet Sears, Michael O'Brien, Ken Gass, Robin Phillips, Marco Micone, and Martine Beaulne. Taken together they explore both the role that Canada has played in contemporary understandings of Shakespeare, and the role that Shakespeare has played in the constitution of postcolonial Canadian subjectivity and nationhood.

Author : Irena R. Makaryk,Kathryn Prince,Annie Brisset
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780776624426

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Shakespeare and Canada by Irena R. Makaryk,Kathryn Prince,Annie Brisset Pdf

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?

Author : York Pioneer and Historical Society, Toronto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101068586138

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Pioneer Shakespeare Culture in Canada by York Pioneer and Historical Society, Toronto Pdf

Author : Sonnet L'Abbe
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771073090

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Sonnet's Shakespeare by Sonnet L'Abbe Pdf

Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award-winning poet Sonnet L'Abbé returns with her third collection, in which a mixed-race woman decomposes her inheritance of Shakespeare by breaking open the sonnet and inventing an entirely new poetic form. DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE FINALIST RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD FINALIST How can poetry grapple with how some cultures assume the place of others? How can English-speaking writers use the English language to challenge the legacy of colonial literary values? In Sonnet's Shakespeare, one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use "the master's tools" on the Bard's "house," attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her pysche and in the poetic canon. In a defiant act of literary patricide and a feat of painstaking poetic labour, Sonnet L'Abbé works with the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets as a space she will inhabit, as a place of power she will occupy. Letter by letter, she sits her own language down into the white spaces of Shakespeare's poems, until she overwhelms the original text and effectively erases Shakespeare's voice by subsuming his words into hers. In each of the 154 dense new poems of Sonnet's Shakespeare sits one "aggrocultured" Shakespearean sonnet--displaced, spoken over, but never entirely silenced. L'Abbé invented the process of Sonnet's Shakespeare to find a way to sing from a body that knows both oppression and privilege. She uses the procedural techniques of Oulipian constraint and erasure poetries to harness the raw energies of her hyperconfessional, trauma-forged lyric voice. This is an artist's magnum opus and mixed-race girlboy's diary; the voice of a settler on stolen Indigenous territories, a sexual assault survivor, a lover of Sylvia Plath and Public Enemy. Touching on such themes as gender identity, pop music, nationhood, video games, and the search for interracial love, this book is a poetic achievement of undeniable scope and significance.

Author : Ian Doescher
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594746550

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William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher Pdf

The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.

Author : Leanore Lieblein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124120416

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A Certain William by Leanore Lieblein Pdf

A collection of plays by some of Francophone Canada's most distinguished playwrights.

Author : Tyrone Guthrie,Robertson Davies,Grant Macdonald
Publisher : CNIB, [197-?]
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129766775

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Renown at Stratford by Tyrone Guthrie,Robertson Davies,Grant Macdonald Pdf

Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Theater audiences
ISBN : 9780415116268

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Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance by James C. Bulman Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Stuart Kells
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640093829

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Shakespeare's Library by Stuart Kells Pdf

A tantalizing true story of one of literature’s most enduring enigmas is at the heart of this “lively, even sprightly book” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)—the quest to find the personal library of the world’s greatest writer. Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world’s most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare’s library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens and partridge coops; and in the corridors of the mind. Yet no trace of the bard’s manuscripts, books or letters has ever been found. The search for Shakespeare’s library is much more than a treasure hunt. Knowing what the Bard read informs our reading of his work, and it offers insight into the mythos of Shakespeare and the debate around authorship. The library’s fate has profound implications for literature, for national and cultural identity, and for the global Shakespeare industry. It bears on fundamental principles of art, identity, history, meaning and truth. Unfolding the search like the mystery story that it is, acclaimed author Stuart Kells follows the trail of the hunters, taking us through different conceptions of the library and of the man himself. Entertaining and enlightening, Shakespeare’s Library is a captivating exploration of one of literature’s most enduring enigmas. "An engaging and provocative contribution to the unending world of Shakespeariana . . . An enchanting work that bibliophiles will savor and Shakespeare fans adore." ―Kirkus Reviews