Shakespeare in Canada: A Cultural Map

Shakespeare in Canada: Exploring Our Cultural History through Digital Humanities

A project to create an online interactive cultural map of the presence of the Bard and the way in which his works have shaped Canadian culture.

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A photograph of Wallis Simpson, taken from The Windsor Years. This was a book that designer John Ferguson drew inspiration from for the costuming inHamlet.

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Photograph of Tyrone Guthrie from the Stratford Shakesperean Festival: Souvenir book July-August 1953 following the first annual festival in Stratford, Ontario.

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Photograph of Tom Patterson from the Stratford Shakesperean Festival: Souvenir book July-August 1953, following the first annual festival.

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Photograph of Timothy Findley from the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Souvenir book July-August 1953 following the first annual festival in Stratford, Ontario.

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The image depicts the fog used to create an eerie atmosphere in this production.

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Photograph features Katy Grabstas, Hannah Sideris-Hersh, and Adrien Pyke as the three witches

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This stage (set up here in Strathcona Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is made out of interlocking blocks; the same blocks A Company of Fools uses in all of their summer showcases. Every day they drive to the park, set up the stage, do the show, tear…

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The Hendricks family poses for a photograph backstage at the National Arts Centre.

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A photograph taken by Yanick Macdonald during a Montreal performance ofThe Comedy of Errors. The photograph captures the final scene of the play featuring (from left to right) Clare Coulter as the Abbess, Danielle Desormeaux as Dromio of Syracuse,…

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Photograph of the playgoers entering the tent theatre to view the Stratford Shakespearean Festival’s first production of Richard III.
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