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Slings & Arrows: Adapting Shakespeare in Theatre and Television
Adapting Shakespeare in Theatre and Television
Format: Hardback

About the Book

Canadian television comedy Slings & Arrows shows the backstage lives of a Shakespearean theatre company. Finding wild success in Canada and abroad, the series won twenty-two television awards, received rave reviews in the United States, and the Brazilian version, Som e Fria, earned audiences of eighteen million viewers. This book not only asks but also answers the question, why Shakespeare today?
, the book proposes, does not merely explore Shakespeare and Canada, but rather the more provocative relationship of Shakespeare as Canada.
Tying together themes of art, theatre, film, culture, and colonialism, this collection investigates the longstanding relevance of Shakespeare through the lens of adaptation.



Table of Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Slings & Arrows: Adapting Shakespeare as Canada in Theatre and Television
Kailin Wright

Act I
“Neither a Borrower nor Lender Be”: The Adaptation and Remediation of Shakespeare

1. Reborn in Germany: Theory and the Theatre in Slings & Arrows
Matt Williamson

2. Slings & Arrows: An Intermediated Shakespearean Adaptation (reprint)
Kim Fedderson and J.M. Richardson

3. Specters of Ethics, Race, and Colonial Inheritance in Slings & Arrows:
The Hyperreal Spectacle of Shakespeare as Canada
Don Moore

4. Performing “a Nobody”: An Interview with Rothaford Gray on His Role as Nahum in Slings & Arrows
Don Moore and Kailin Wright


Act II
“What Players Are They?”: Vulnerable Performativity, Spectatorship, and Ghosts

5. “Who’s There?”: Slings & Arrows’s Audience Dynamics (reprint)
Kailin Wright

6. Actors, Names, and the Cultural Inheritance of Slings & Arrows
Laura Estill

7. Fistfights and Sacrifice: Troupe Dynamics, Transformation, and Shakespeare Offstage
Elizabeth E. Tavares

8. Coloured “Extras” and Spotlit Whites: Spectating “Race” in Slings & Arrows
George Elliott Clarke

9. Comic Terror and Masculine Vulnerability in Slings & Arrows: Season Three. (reprint)
Francesca T. Royster


Act III
“The Play’s the Thing”: Television, Theatre, and the Afterlife of Slings & Arrows

10. “Why Shakespeare? Why Canada?”: An Interview with Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, and Mark McKinney on Creating Slings & Arrows
Kailin Wright

11. Levinas-Based Shakespearean Adaptation, Performance, and Fandom in Slings & Arrows
Lisa S. Starks

12. Haters Gonna Hate: Vid Adaptations of Slings & Arrows
Charlotte Stevens

13. Exhaustive Shakespeare, Shakespearean Exhaustion: Slings & Arrows and the End of Endless Adaptation
Daniel Fischlin


Afterword
Mark Fortier

Contributors

Bibliography

Index



About the Author :

Kailin Wright is an associate professor of English, Jules Léger research chair, and award-winning teacher at St. Francis Xavier University.

Don Moore is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Guelph.

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781487507725
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Returnable: 03
  • Returnable: 03
  • Sub Title: Adapting Shakespeare in Theatre and Television
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1487507720
  • Publisher Date: 17 Feb 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Returnable: 03
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 710 gr

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