Adapting Shakespeare in Canada. Special issue of Canadian Theatre Review 111 (Summer 2002).

• Cover and Table of Contents.
  
• Fischlin, Daniel and Ric Knowles. Editorial.
  
• Burnett, Linda. "Redescribing a World."
  A lively look at four dramatic adaptations of Shakespeare, from Gertrude and Ophelia to Harlem Duet, working towards a theory of Shakespearean adaptation as parody.
  
• McKay, Ellen. "The Spectre of Straight Shakespeare."
  Goodnight Desdemona and Mad Boy Chronicle provide new ways of looking at old texts -- finding them a little queer.
  
• Lieblein, Leanore. "Dave veut jouer Richard III."
  What if the actor playing Shakespeare's deformed King had a real handicap? Ask Montréal's Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental.
  
• Bennett, Susan. "Virtually Canadian."
  Web sites ranging from theatre promotions to educational cartoons bring "the artist of the millennium" home to Canada.
  
• Ailles, Jennifer. "Adapting the Bard: A Virtual Guide."
  From Bard on the Beach to Shakespeare by the Sea, Canadian Shakespeare festival web sites adapt Shakespeare for media-savvy audiences.
  
• McCutcheon, Mark. "A Midsummer Night's Mash-Up."
  "To dream, perchance to rave." Serenity Industries serves up a passing strange Midsummer Night's Dream as a Canada Day rave.
  
• Fortier, Mark. "Dancing with Shakespeare."
  Tom Stroud and Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers have been dancing around the words of Shakespeare for nearly a decade. In 2001 The Garden located Hamlet on a dirt-covered stage. "The air is so thick you could cut it with a bare bodkin."
  
• Schagerl, Jessica. "Shakespeare in a Blender."
  What happens when the Marx brothers make coffee for the Monty Python gang at a slumber party where everyone is watching Bugs Bunny? Ottawa's Company of Fools makes fun out of Shakespeare.
  
• Mirlees, Tanner. "Kate Lynch's All-Woman Dream. "
  Kate Lynch, director of Theatre Passe Muraille's stellar all-woman production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, discusses gender, doubling and dreaming in a wide-ranging interview. "Can we talk about the gender politics of your show?"
  
• Van Rhijn, Judy. "Loreena McKennitt, Merchant of Song."
  When Richard Monette asked internationally acclaimed Canadian Celtic bard Loreena McKennitt to write music for The Merchant of Venice he got a mixture of themes that remind us of snakes writhing out of baskets and gypsies dancing sinuously through the streets.
  
• Heatley, Stephen. "Adapting Shakespeare to the Prairie Landscape."
  Is Shakespeare a prairie playwright? The Free Will Players and the realities of outdoor Shakespeare in Edmonton.
  
• Fischlin, Daniel. "Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare in Canada: A Working Bibliography."
  
• ---. "Adaptation as Rite of Passage: A Shakespeare Pageant. "
  A critical introduction to Sister Mary Agnes' Shakespeare Pageant.
  
• SCRIPT: S.M.A. [Sister Mary Agnes]. A Shakespeare Pageant: Dialogue for Commencement Day.
  
• Knowles, Ric. "Reading Elsinore : The Ghost and the Machine."
  RoberRobert Lepage's internationally acclaimed one-man Hamlet breaks a few eggs. Introduced by Ric Knowles.
  
• SCRIPT: Robert Lepage.  Elsinore.
  
• "Views and Reviews."
  
• Periodical advertising supplement.