Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Shakespeare in Canada: 4a world elsewhere'? 1
6. PART ONE. Beginnings: Institutionalizing Shakespeare
7. 1. Pioneer Shakespeare Culture: Reverend Henry Scadding and His Shakespeare Display at the 1892 Toronto Industrial Exhibition 43
8. 2. The Imperial Theme: The Shakespeare Society of Toronto, 1928 – 1969 66
9. 3. 'A Stage for the Word': Shakespeare on CBC Radio, 1947 – 1955 92
10. 4. Stratford and the Aspirations for a Canadian National Theatre 108
11. PART TWO. Shakespeare on Stage
12. 5. Shakespeare Canadiens at the Stratford Festival 137
13. 6. A National Hamlet? Stratford's Legacy of Twentieth-Century Productions 159
14. 7. 'Le Re-making' of le grand Will: Shakespeare in Francophone Quebec 174
15. 8. Learning to Curse in Accurate Iambics: Shakespeare in Newfoundland 192
16. 9. Liberal Shakespeare and Illiberal Critiques: Necessary Angel's King Lear 212
17. PART THREE. Critical Debates and Traditions
18. 10. Continuity and Contradiction: University Actors Meet the Universal Bard 231
19. 11. Canadian Bacon 255
20. 12. Canada, Negative Capability, Cymbeline 274
21. 13. Frye's Shakespeare, Frye's Canada 292
22. PART FOUR. Reimagining Shakespaeare
23. 14. Nation and/as Adaptation: Shakespeare, Canada, and Authenticity 309
24. 15. Undead and Unsafe: Adapting Shakespeare (in Canada) 339
25. 16. Normand Chaurette's Les Reiner. Shakespeare and the Modern in the Alchemical Oven 353
26. 17. Othello in Three Times 371
27. Afterword. Relocating Shakespeare, Redefining Canada 395
28. Appendix. Research Opportunities in Canadian Shakespeare 410
29. References 417
30. Contributors 455
31. Index 461