By Irena R. Makaryk,Kathryn Prince,Annie Brisset,Richard Cavell,Dana Colarusso,Daniel Fischlin,Troni Grande,Peter Kuling,Sarah Mackenzie,C.E. McGee,Don Moore,Ian Rae,Tom Scholte,Kailin Wright
ISBN-10: 0776624415
ISBN-13: 9780776624419
Shakespeare in Canada is the results of a collective wish to discover the position that Shakespeare has performed in Canada during the last 200 years, but additionally to understand the way in which our country’s tradition has motivated our interpretation of his literary profession and history. What functionality does Shakespeare serve in Canada this day? How has he been reconfigured in numerous methods for specific Canadian contexts?
The authors of this publication try to solution those questions whereas imagining what the long run may perhaps carry for William Shakespeare in Canada. masking the Stratford competition, the cult CBC tv application Slings and Arrows, significant Canadian critics resembling Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, the influential performing instructor Neil Freiman, the increase of Québécois and primary country methods to Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s position in secondary faculties this day, this assortment displays the variety and effort of Shakespeare’s afterlife in Canada.
Collectively, the authors recommend that Shakespeare keeps to supply Canadians “remembrance of ourselves.” this can be a refreshingly unique and ambitious contribution to Shakespeare studies—a substantial success in any paintings at the heritage of 1 of the critical figures within the western literary canon.
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