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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Contains Peter Hinton's notes for the atmosphere of the production

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Peter Hinton discusses the possible past interpretations of Macbeth as well as his own intentions as a director with this 2008 interpretation of Shakespeare's play.

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Peter Hinton describes the impetus for staging an all-AboriginalKingLear set in seventeenth-century Algonquin territory and explains the objectives of the production.

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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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Jennifer Hartley's review of Denise Coffey's National Arts Centre performance of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

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W.A.B. [William Alexander Baillie] Hamilton, Secretary of the British Admiralty, authorized the publication of this broadside in March of 1850. It was part of the effort to find the crew and vessels connected to Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to…

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Brian Gorman's review of the National Arts Centre's 1997 production of Othello highlights the production's energy and "universally strong" cast.

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Brian Gorman's interview with Megan Follows touches on her acting history, her love of theatre, her previous role as Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables (1985) and her working relationship with director Michael Langham.

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