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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Beginning page of the StoryMap online exhibit about the 1979 production of Hamlet at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa.

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An interview with Monique Mojica produced by NAC English theatre in Collaboration with Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance, The Banff Centre and Luminato Festival with the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts and the Australia Council for…

An interview conducted in Ottawa regarding the actor's perspective of implementing costumes, props and audience engagement in the 2015 production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Geoff McBride was cast as Dromio of Ephesus, and Egeon.

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Illustration of the H.M.S. Resolute from from the "Private Journal of an Expedition to the Arctic Regions to ascertain the fate of Sir John Franklin and his Crews, under the Command of Capt. Sir Edward Belcher consisting of Her Majesty's Ships,…

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Photograph of His Excellency the Right Honourable Vincent Massey, C.H., Governor-General of Canada, surveying a model of thrust stage designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch for the 1953 Stratford Shakespearean Festival. This photograph was found in The…

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Catriona has been involved with A Company of Fools as an actress, director and artistic director. She has been involved in A Company of Fools' productions of As You Like It (Touchstone/Phebe/Oliver), Antony & Cleopatra (Cleopatra),…

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Janet Moffat's review of the NAC's lengthy, modernized version of Shakespeare'sHamlet from the Sunday Post of Canada.

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A poster of Neil Munro as Hamlet in the National Arts Centre's 1979 production of Hamlet, in repertory with Equus by Peter Shaffer.

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Costume inventory for Tom Rooney as Hamlet in Hamlet 2004.

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Newspaper article written by Marcia Ross, published in The Fourth Estate on January 30, 1975. The article explains Director John Wood's vision and influences when he decided to produce the play Hamlet in the context of the 30s.
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