Conference Explores Origins of Shakespeare Portrait
January 16, 2014
More than 400 years old, portrait still inspires interest By Andrew Vowles Thursday, January 16, 2014 The Sanders portrait Daniel Fischlin was hunkered down by the phone in mid-December “waiting for the media feeding frenzy to begin.” News…
Recent Media Stories on the Sanders Portrait Symposium and Sale
December 5, 2013
Following upon the November 28, 2013 Symposium "Look Here Upon this Picture: A Symposium on the Sanders Portrait of Shakespeare", held at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto, a number of media outlets have released stories or done full-length radio…
SHAKESPEARE’S CANADIAN CONNECTIONS – Mark Hallman
March 16, 2007
The most famous playwright in history, William Shakespeare, has definite ties to Canada, even though he lived his life across the pond in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His ties can be seen in the many Shakespearean productions that have graced sta...
Portico Shakespeare
November 8, 2006
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.” (Twelfth Night, II, v. 156-159) What’s so great about Shakespeare, anyway? The Bard died almost 400 years ago and it’s impossible…
The Many Faces of Shakespeare By PETER MONAGHAN
July 14, 2006
http://chronicle.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i45/45a00601.htm http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i45/45a00601.htm From the issue dated July 14, 2006 The Many Faces of Shakespeare By PETER MONAGHAN Somewhere in Ca...
To be or not to be, eh? Canada loves to rewrite Shakespeare
June 8, 2006
It began with the typical English teacher’s dilemma: students love Shakespeare’s stories, but stumble over the writer’s 500-year-old language. So University of Guelph professor Daniel Fischlin went looking for adaptations—plays that take classic p...
Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP)
April 26, 2006
www.canadianshakespeares.ca “Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.” Voltaire “Pourquoi Shakespeare? Parce que ce rendez-vous avec le plus grand poète dramatique nous en revions depuis l...
Shakespeare speaks to us
July 16, 2005
Canadians adapt his works to tell our own stories BY BARBARA AGGERHOLM RECORD STAFF
Stratford Festival, U of G Partner on New Website
April 20, 2005
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council supports collaborative project with $163,000 award BY REBECCA KENDALL One year after the unveiling of U of G's Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP), the largest and most sophisticated w...