As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare's influence in Canada?

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Shakespeare and Canada: "Remembrance of Ourselves"

Irena R. Makaryk and Kathryn Prince 1

"Theatre is not a nursing home": Merchants of Venice of The Stratford Festival

C. E. McGee 11

Intercultural Performance and The Stratford Festival as Global Tourist Place: Leon Rubin's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

Robert Ormsby 27

Stratford, Shakespeare, and J. D. Barnett

Ian Rae 49

Counterfactual History at The Stratford Festival: Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex and Peter Hinton's The Swanne

Peter Kuling 71

"Who's There?": Slings & Arrows' Audience Dynamics

Kailin Wright 79

Race, National Identity, and the Hauntological Ethics of Slings & Arrows

Don Moore 97

Performing "Indigenous Shakespeare" in Canada: The Tempest and The Death of a Chief

Sarah Mackenzie 111

Shakespeare, a Late Bloomer on the Quebec Stage

Annie Brisset 127

Mediatic Shakespeare: McLuhan and the Bard

Richard Cavell 157

Shakespeare and the "Cultural Lag" of Canadian Stratford in Alice Munro's "Tricks"

Troni Y. Grande 177

Beyond (or Beneath) the Folio: Neil Freeman's Shakespearean Acting Pedagogy in Context

Tom Scholte 199

Rhyme and Reason: Shakespeare's Exceptional Status and Role in Canadian Education

Dana M. Colarusso 215

The Truth About Stories About Shakespeare . . . In Canada?

Daniel Fischlin 241

Contributors 263

Index 267

Irena R. Makaryk is Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Department of English. She displays a special interest for the interpretation of Shakespeare's work in different cultures and time periods. She has been published numerous times for her work on Shakespeare's literary career and Kathryn Prince is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Theatre. Her research focuses on intersections of space, bodies, objects, and emotions in early modern performance. She also displays a particular interest for Shakespeare's theatrical career.