“Theatre is not a nursing home”: Merchants of Venice of The Stratford Festival

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents III
3. List of Illustrations and Figures V
4. Acknowledgements VII
5. Shakespeare and Canada: “Remembrance of Ourselves” 1
6. “Theatre is not a nursing home”: Merchants of Venice of The Stratford Festival 10
7. Intercultural Performance and The Stratford Festival as Global Tourist Place: Leon Rubin’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night 26
8. Stratford, Shakespeare, and J. D. Barnett 48
9. Counterfactual History at The Stratford Festival: Timothy Findley’s Elizabeth Rex and Peter Hinton’s The Swanne 69
10. “Who’s There?”: Slings & Arrows’ Audience Dynamics 77
11. Race, National Identity, and the Hauntological Ethics of Slings & Arrows 94
12. Performing “Indigenous Shakespeare” in Canada: The Tempest and The Death of a Chief 107
13. Shakespeare, a Late Bloomer on the Quebec Stage 122
14. Mediatic Shakespeare: McLuhan and the Bard 152
15. Shakespeare and the “Cultural Lag” of Canadian Stratford in Alice Munro’s “Tricks” 172
16. Beyond (or Beneath) the Folio: Neil Freeman’s Shakespearean Acting Pedagogy in Context 193
17. Rhyme and Reason: Shakespeare’s Exceptional Status and Role in Canadian Education 209
18. The Truth About Stories About Shakespeare . . . In Canada? 235
19. Contributors 257
20. Index 261