Format:
1 online resource (665 pages)
ISBN:
9781772126211
Content:
Four centuries of playscripts and archival material challenge us to rethink Canadian theatre and performance.
Content:
Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Thematic Table of Contents -- Foreword | Wasserman -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction | Lindgren, Nichols, Vickery -- 1 The Theatre of Neptune (1606) | Carter -- The Theatre of Neptune in New France | Lescarbot -- 2 The Conquest of Canada -- or the Siege of Quebec (1766) | Nichols -- The Conquest of Canada -- or the Siege of Quebec | Cockings -- 3 Acadius, or Love in a Calm (1774) | Blum -- Acadius, or Love in a Calm | Anonymous -- 4 Early Quebec Circus (1797-1950s) | Leroux -- 5 Petitions against Performances of "Jim Crow" (1840-1843) | Johnson -- Transcripts of Petitions -- 6 Shipboard Performances (1851) | Davis-Fisch -- Excerpts from Shipboard Performances -- 7 Canadian Fancy Dress Balls (1876-1898) | Cooper -- 8 The Sweet Girl Graduate (1882) | Bird -- The Sweet Girl Graduate | Curzon -- 9 A Red Girl's Reasoning (1892) | Kovacs -- A Red Girl's Reasoning -- 10 Walker Theatre, Winnipeg (1905-1907) | Vickery -- 11 Cantonese Theatre in Vancouver (1916-1936) | Ng -- 12 The Man Who Went (1916) | Vickery -- The Man Who Went -- 13 Little Theatre Scenography (1919-1937) | Stoesser -- 14 The Wood Carver's Wife (1919) | Day -- The Wood Carver's Wife -- 15 Evelyn Geary and the Uptown Girls (1922-1938) | Bowring -- 16 The IODE's Historical Pageant (1927) | Lindgren -- 17 Rocks (1932) | Wagner -- Rocks | Voaden -- 18 Unity (1933) | Filewood -- Unity | Ryan -- 19 Cocktail (1935) | Verduyn -- Cocktail, a Comedy in Three Acts | Mercier-Gouin -- 20 The Winnipeg Ballet Club (1939) | McCurdy -- 21 William Tell (ca. 1943-1945) | Poulton & -- Stanger-Ross -- William Tell | Schiller -- 22 Gay/Queer and Trans Performances and Cultures in Toronto (1946-1965) | Halferty -- 23 The Good Life (1947) | Ellenwood -- The Good Life | Gauvreau -- 24 Hilda Morgan (1949) | Jackson & -- Fink.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781772126044
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781772126044
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kanada
;
Theater
;
Geschichte 1600-1975
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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