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.

Photograph of King Edward VIII in the uniform of the Scots Guards

Title

Photograph of King Edward VIII in the uniform of the Scots Guards

Creator

Wilding, Dorothy (photographer)
Belfour, John Patrick Douglas (author)

Subject

King Edward VIII; Prince of Wales; abdication; The Windsor Years; Wilding, Dorothy; costume inspiration; Hamlet; Ferguson, John

Description

A photograph of King Edward VIII, taken from The Windsor Years. This was a book that designer John Ferguson drew inspiration from for the costuming in Hamlet.

Publisher

The Viking Press

Date

1936

Format

image, black and white photograph

Identifier

UO-SC-Kinross-WindsorYears-p214

Source

Belfour, John Patrick Douglas. The Windsor Years: The Life of Edward As Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor. The Viking Press, 1967, pp. 214.
Cavin Bonifacio, Claire McCracken, and Megan McKague, University of Ottawa (cataloguers)

Language

English

Coverage

Rights

The Viking Press

Files

UO-SC-Kinross-WindsorYears-p214.jpg

Collection

Citation

Wilding, Dorothy (photographer) and Belfour, John Patrick Douglas (author), “Photograph of King Edward VIII in the uniform of the Scots Guards,” Shakespeare in Canada: A Cultural Map, accessed December 23, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/shakespearecanada/items/show/235.