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Drama Anthologies (multiple Authors)

The Shakespeare's Mine

Adapting Shakespeare in Anglophone Canada

introduction by Ric Knowles

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
May 2009
Category
Anthologies (multiple authors), Canadian

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887547294
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $35.00

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770918542
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $35.00

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Description

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

About the author

Ric Knowles is of anglo-Scottish heritage, and is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and past editor of Modern Drama (1999â??2005). He is author of The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre, co-author (with the Cultural Memory Group) of Remembering Women Murdered by Men, editor of Theatre in Atlantic Canada, Judith Thompson, and The Masks of Judith Thompson, and co-editor (with Joanne Tompkins and W.B.Worthen) of Modern Drama: Defining the Field. He is general editor of the book series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre from Playwrights Canada Press.

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