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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 Quebecois 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.
Contents
Table of Contents Acknowledgements ix Shakespeare and Canada: "Remembrance of Ourselves" Irena R. Makaryk and Kathryn Prince 1 "Theatre is not a nursing home": Merchants of Venice of The Stratford Festival C. E. McGee 11 Intercultural Performance and The Stratford Festival as Global Tourist Place: Leon Rubin's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night Robert Ormsby 27 Stratford, Shakespeare, and J. D. Barnett Ian Rae 49 Counterfactual History at The Stratford Festival: Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex and Peter Hinton's The Swanne Peter Kuling 71 "Who's There?": Slings & Arrows' Audience Dynamics Kailin Wright 79 Race, National Identity, and the Hauntological Ethics of Slings & Arrows Don Moore 97 Performing "Indigenous Shakespeare" in Canada: The Tempest and The Death of a Chief Sarah Mackenzie 111 Shakespeare, a Late Bloomer on the Quebec Stage Annie Brisset 127 Mediatic Shakespeare: McLuhan and the Bard Richard Cavell 157 Shakespeare and the "Cultural Lag" of Canadian Stratford in Alice Munro's "Tricks" Troni Y. Grande 177 Beyond (or Beneath) the Folio: Neil Freeman's Shakespearean Acting Pedagogy in Context Tom Scholte 199 Rhyme and Reason: Shakespeare's Exceptional Status and Role in Canadian Education Dana M. Colarusso 215 The Truth About Stories About Shakespeare ... In Canada? Daniel Fischlin 241 Contributors 263 Index 267
