Shakespeare and Canada: Essays on Production, Translation, and Adaptation

• Published in: Canadian Theatre Review
• Main Authors: Knowles, Ric, Worthen, W.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 2005
• Subjects: Visual Arts and Performing Arts; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.121.013; https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.121.013

Ric Knowles’s new book, Shakespeare and Canada – number 8 in the P.I.E.-Peter Lang Dramaturgies: Texts, Cultures and Performances series – is an important collection of essays. Knowles is widely known for his cogent critique of the culture of contemporary Canadian Shakespeare performance. He is also a major figure in the landscape of contemporary Canadian theatre studies; a widely respected reviewer; editor of the Canadian Theatre Review and Modern Drama; author of two searching books on recent Canadian drama, The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning and Reading the Material Theatre; and co-editor of Staging Coyote’s Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English and Modern Drama: Defining the Field. There’s perhaps no one more able to dramatize the critical dialogue between Shakespeare and the forms, moods and shapes of Canadian theatre.