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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Sketch of the Swan Theatre's original stage by Johannes de Witt, serving as an example of the apron stage common in Elizabethan theatre.

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Tanya Moiseiwitsch's sketch for Alec Guinness's Richard III costume.

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Assignment for ENG 4142, "How Shakespeare Became 'Shakespeare'", a fourth-year seminar course

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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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Assignment for ENG 4142, "How Shakespeare Became 'Shakespeare'", a fourth-year seminar course

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Assignment for ENG 4142, "How Shakespeare Became 'Shakespeare'", a fourth-year seminar course.

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A digital archive of the only recorded evidence of Shakespeare performed by amateurs in the Canadian North. Crews sailing under the command of Sir. Edward Belcher in the 1852 expedition to find the lost Franklin ships performed Shakespeare's Hamlet…

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Thrust stage set maquette of the National Arts Centre's 2004 production of Hamlet, designed by John Pennoyer and directed by Marti Maraden.

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This to scale maquette of the Hamlet set was createdby John Ferguson in 1979. It allowed for director John Wood to see how Ferguson had interpreted the concept of the play. The production omitted the revolving square centre stage as that was only…

Comedy of Errors Design Board Collection.pdf
These boards were created for the production ofTheComedy of Errors,atthe National Arts Centre (in co-production with Centaur Theatre Company). Some of the major design inspirations on the boards come from the Via Rail Station, the statue of the…
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