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Book SynopsisThe first work to engage Shakespeare with distinctly Canadian debates addressing nationalism, separatism, cultural appropriation, cultural nationalism, feminism, and postcolonialism.
Table of Contents* Preface - Diane Bryden and Irena R. Makaryk* Introduction: Shakespeare in Canada: 'aworld elsewhere'? - Irena R. Makaryk* Part One: Beginnings: Institutionalizing Shakespeare* Pioneer Shakespeare Culture: The Reverend Henry Scadding and His Shakespeare Display at the 1892 Toronto Industrial Exhibition - Heather Murray* The Imperial Theme: The Shakespeare Society of Toronto,1928-1969 - Karen Bamford*'A Stage for the Word': Shakespeare on CBC Radio, 1947-1955 - Marta Straznicky* Stratford and the Aspirations for a Canadian National Theatre - Margaret Groome* Shakespeare Canadiens at the Stratford Festival - C.E. McGee* A National Hamlet?: Stratford's Legacy of Twentieth-Century Productions - Jessica Schagerl* Part Two: Shakespeare On Stage*'Le Re-making' of le Grand Will: Shakespeare in Francophone Quebec - Leanore Lieblein* Learning to Curse in Accurate Iambics: Shakespeare in Newfoundland - Peter Ayers* Liberal Spectators and Illiberal Critiques: Necessary Angel's King Lear - Michael McKinnie* Part Three: Critical Debates and Traditions* Continuity and Contradiction: University Actors Meet the Universal Bard - Anthony B. Dawson* Canadian Bacon - Paul Yachnin and Brent E. Whitted* Canada, Negative Capability, and Cymbeline - Alexander Leggatt* Frye's Shakespeare, Frye's Canada - L.M. Findlay* Part Four: Reimagining Shakespeare* Nation and/as Adaptation: Shakespeare, Canada, and Authenticity - Daniel Fischlin* Undead and Unsafe: Adapting Shakespeare (in Canada) - Mark Fortier* Normand Chaurette's Les Reines: Shakespeare and the Modern in the Alchemical Oven - Lois Sherlow* Othello in Three Times - Ric Knowles* Afterword: Relocating Shakespeare, Redefining Canada - Diana Brydon
