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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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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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…

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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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“Would he were fatter.” Jani Lauzon as Marc Antony and Monique Mojica as Caesar looking towards Brutus and Cassius as they conspired on stage left in the “split-screen” staging of 1.2 from Julius Caesar in the Native Earth…

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Janice Kennedy's favourable review of the NAC's production of Othello for the Ottawa Citizen highlights the production's strong visual impact and compelling characterization.

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This item is an advertisement placed in the Stratford Shakesperean Festival: Souvenir book for the John Gaffney Construction Company, which built the stage for the festival.

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Engraving of a scene from The Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio standing to left, right hand on his hip, holding up a new cap in his left and mocking its shape, before giving it back to the waiting haberdasher despite Catherine's protestations that…

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The First Nations Exchange group participated in the making of the props, including the drums.

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Exhibit created for course assignment in the seminar ENG 4142 "How Shakespeare Became 'Shakespeare'". View full exhibit

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The costume hearkens back to the Second World War and evokes a visceral and immediate response in contemporary audiences.

Gessell, Paul. "Macbeth: Will contain Nazi-like elements." Ottawa Citizen, 5 January 2008, p. D6.
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