In which we cover a range of pre-Confederation plays, including Charles Heavysege's 'Saul', and discuss how they inform the performance of history, society, and culture. You can find 'Saul' in our recommended reading page below!
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Sources & Further Reading:
- Charlesbois, Gaetan, and Anne Nothop. "Canadian Theatre History," Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, Athabasca University Press, October 2020.
- Conolly, L. W., and Richard Plant. "Drama in English. The beginnings to 1953." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Cushings, Eliza Lanesford. Esther: A Sacred Drama, Joseph Dowe, 1840. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=es9ZAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA3
- Doucette, L. E. "Drama in French. The beginnings to 1900." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Filewod, Alan. Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre. Textual Studies in Canada, The University College of the Cariboo, 2002.
- Heavysege, Charles. Saul: A Drama in Three Parts, 1859. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=nxSug2cPkcwC&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA5
- Jones, Heather. "Class, Culture, and Belief: The Contexts of Charles Heavysege's Christian Poetry," Canadian Literature, no. 213, pp. 141-155, 2012. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=213
- Lescarbot, Marc. Le théâtre de Neptune, 1606, http://www.optative.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sinkingneptune.pdf (English version starts on page 31)
- Newton, Norman. "Classical Canadian Poetry and the Public Muse," Canadian Literature, no. 51, pp. 39-52, 1972. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=51
- Tait, Michael. "Playwrights in a Vacuum: English-Canadian Drama in the Nineteenth Century," Canadian Literature, no. 16, pp. 5-18, 1963. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=16
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