Shakespeare and Canada

Irena R. Makaryk, Kathryn Prince

• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780776624419
• eBook ISBN: 9780776624433
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
• Index: Literature

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.

Index

Antony and Cleopatra 75, 121, 135, 164, 178, 180, 186–187, 189, 192–194, 241

Anansi Press 257

Anderson, Kim 114

Anouilh, Jean 130, 133, 137

Applause Books 200, 203

Applebaum, Lou 21

As You Like It 134–135, 150, 166–167, 178, 180, 183, 184, 188–190

Atwood, Margaret 5, 6, 246

Audiberti, Jacques 129, 133

Austen, Jane 246

Avon Theatre 11, 12, 19

Babb, Glenn 112

Bamford, Karen 57

Barnett, J.D. 4, 49, 50, 56–64

Bartolovich, Crystal 31, 46

Bassani, Giorgio 18

Baumander, Lewis 111–117

Beck, Adam 59

Beddows, Joël 145

Bedford, Brian 40, 41, 43

Benjamin, Walter 127

Bentham, Jeremy 104

Berman, Antoine 127–128, 151

Bolter, Jay 98

Bonnefoy, Yves 145

Bouchard, Michel Marc 130, 141

Boucher, Denise 129, 142

Bourdieu, Pierre 101, 128, 141

Bradbrook, Muriel 157–9

Bread and Puppet Theatre 132

Brisset, Annie 5, 6, 139, 148

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 200, 202

British Council 1

Brook, Peter 38, 168

Brydon, Diana 50, 57

Calvo, Clara 2–3

Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP) 80, 249–253

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) 257

Canadian Jewish Congress 13

Carbone 14 130, 141

Cardinal, Lorne 116

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Table of contents

• Cover
• 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