Shakespeare in Canada : : A World Elsewhere? / / Irena Makaryk, Diana Brydon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Brydon, Diana,; Makaryk, Irena,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface / Brydon, Diana / Makaryk, Irena R. -- Introduction: Shakespeare in Canada: 4a world elsewhere'? / Makaryk, Irena R. -- PART ONE. Beginnings: Institutionalizing Shakespeare -- 1. Pioneer Shakespeare Culture: Reverend Henry Scadding and His Shakespeare Display at the 1892 Toronto Industrial Exhibition / Murray, Heather -- 2. The Imperial Theme: The Shakespeare Society of Toronto, 1928 - 1969 / Bamford, Karen -- 3. 'A Stage for the Word': Shakespeare on CBC Radio, 1947 - 1955 / Straznicky, Marta -- 4. Stratford and the Aspirations for a Canadian National Theatre / Groome, Margaret -- PART TWO. Shakespeare on Stage -- 5. Shakespeare Canadiens at the Stratford Festival / Mcgee, C.E. -- 6. A National Hamlet? Stratford's Legacy of Twentieth-Century Productions / Schagerl, Jessica -- 7. 'Le Re-making' of le grand Will: Shakespeare in Francophone Quebec / Lieblein, Leanore -- 8. Learning to Curse in Accurate Iambics: Shakespeare in Newfoundland / Ayers, Peter -- 9. Liberal Shakespeare and Illiberal Critiques: Necessary Angel's King Lear / Mckinnie, Michael -- PART THREE. Critical Debates and Traditions -- 10. Continuity and Contradiction: University Actors Meet the Universal Bard / Dawson, Anthony B. -- 11. Canadian Bacon / Yachnin, Paul / Whitted, Brent E. -- 12. Canada, Negative Capability, Cymbeline / Leggatt, Alexander -- 13. Frye's Shakespeare, Frye's Canada / Findlay, L.M. -- PART FOUR. Reimagining Shakespaeare -- 14. Nation and/as Adaptation: Shakespeare, Canada, and Authenticity / Fischlin, Daniel -- 15. Undead and Unsafe: Adapting Shakespeare (in Canada) / Fortier, Mark -- 16. Normand Chaurette's Les Reiner. Shakespeare and the Modern in the Alchemical Oven / Sherlow, Lois -- 17. Othello in Three Times / Knowles, Rig -- Afterword. Relocating Shakespeare, Redefining Canada / Brydon, Diana -- Appendix. Research Opportunities in Canadian Shakespeare / Schagerl, Jessica -- References -- Contributors -- Index