The Shakespeare's Mine: Adapting Shakespeare in Anglophone Canada

by Ric Knowles

2021-01-08 07:38:08

Claiming the right to the language of Shakespeare and the power that it represents in our culture, this collection of Anglophone Canadian adaptations manages to talk back to that authority in some surprising ways. From an adaptation of Hamlet that dr... Read more
Claiming the right to the language of Shakespeare and the power that it represents in our culture, this collection of Anglophone Canadian adaptations manages to talk back to that authority in some surprising ways. From an adaptation of Hamlet that draws from the plays Viking origins to a rettelling of Othello in modern-day Harlem, the plays published here all serve as examples of different ways in which Canadian playwrights have addressed the strange doubleness and rejecting, citing, and rewriting, declaring Shakespeare as their own.Includes:Cruel Tears by Ken Mitchell and Humphrey & the DumptrucksClaudius by Ken GassMad Boy Chronicle by Michael O''BrienHarlem Duet by Djanet SearsShakespeare''s Will by Vern ThiessenDeath of a Chief by Yvette Nolan and Kennedy C. MacKinnon Less

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File size9 X 6 X 0.5 in
Print pages448
PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
Publication date May 1, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781770918542

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