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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This is a typical "backstage" set up for Bear & Co productions, which is normally placed behind the audience. In this specific photograph, the props used in the Macbeth production are laid out in an easily accessible fashion for actors.

Audio recording of the NAC French and English Theater Preview regarding Edward Atienza, the only English lead actor to play a role in the French play Périclès, staged at the National Arts Centre.

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Warren Bane as Antipholous of Syracuse interacting with members of the audience in Strathcona Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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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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Photograph taken at a performance in Strathcona Park. Luciana played by Katie Ryerson and Antipholus of Ephesus played by Al Conners.

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An introduction to André Brassard, welcoming him as the new Artistic Director of the French Theatre.

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Le Devoir article by Robert Lévesque regarding André Brassard as the new director of the National Arts Centre. Topics include Brassard's desires for the season and his regrets for Quebec.

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La Presse newspaper clipping regarding the public's positive reception of André Brassard's play Périclès staged at the National Arts Centre.

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Colour lithograph of politicians playing the roles in the play within Hamlet; a presentation cartoon from the "St. Stephens' Review."

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Photograph taken of the 1953 production of Richard III at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. This photograph captures Alec Guinness and Robert Goodier in a scene from the production of Richard III.
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