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The IATC journal/Revue de l'AICT – December/Décembre 2018: Issue No 18
 

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques

The IATC journal/Revue de l'AICT – December/Décembre 2018: Issue No 18

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A Theatre Artist’s Path:

A Theatre Artist’s Path:

Questioning Shakespeare’s Authorship

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Between Tradition and the Contemporary:

Between Tradition and the Contemporary:

An Exploration of Chinese Scenic Designers

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Traditional Chinese Theatre Today

Traditional Chinese Theatre Today

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Almada’s Theatre Fiesta: A Public Affair or an Affair with the Public

Almada’s Theatre Fiesta: A Public Affair or an Affair with the Public

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Discovering Minsk through Belarusian Theatre

Discovering Minsk through Belarusian Theatre

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Of Mothers and Warriors

Of Mothers and Warriors

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Transforming Techniques, Transforming Relationships:

Transforming Techniques, Transforming Relationships:

Interview with Actor-Director Ding Yiteng

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Timişoara Festival Pierces through Past and Future Nationalisms

Timişoara Festival Pierces through Past and Future Nationalisms

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Introduction
The Question That Won’t Go Away:
Did the Man From Stratford Really Write the Plays?

<u><em>Introduction</em></u><br>The Question That Won’t Go Away: <br><em>Did the Man From Stratford Really Write the Plays?</em>

Don Rubin* Abstract: This is an introduction to a eight essay section on the Shakespeare Authorship Question. The introduction suggests that there are significant irregularities in the traditional biography, that the authorship question has a history of some 400 years

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Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance: Reasonable Doubt about the Identity of William Shakespeare

Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance: Reasonable Doubt about the Identity of William Shakespeare

Derek Jacobi* and Mark Rylance** Abstract: This paper presents the edited transcript of a conversation between two distinguished Shakespearean actors, Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, about why the Shakespeare Authorship Question should be accorded respect and taken more seriously by

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A Theatre Artist’s Path:
Questioning Shakespeare’s Authorship

A Theatre Artist’s Path:<br>Questioning Shakespeare’s Authorship

Keir Cutler* Abstract: This paper offers the reflections of a Canadian actor on the “Shakespeare Authorship Question.” After completing his Ph.D. in Theatre, the writer found himself asking why, in all his years in academe, no one ever mentioned that

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What’s the Question in Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography?

What’s the Question in Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography?

Literary Paper Trails Diana Price* Abstract: American researcher and independent scholar Diana Price provides evidence that there are significant irregularities in the standard biography of the putative author of the plays of Shakespeare comparing documentation on the life of the

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Transforming Productions of Shakespeare’s Plays

Transforming Productions of Shakespeare’s Plays

Gary Goldstein* Abstract: In the present paper, the author explores how the authorship debate can change the ways in which the Shakespeare plays are produced if the true Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, and if

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Shakespeare as Lawyer
Hamlet: Death, Property, and the Pursuit of Justice

<em>Shakespeare as Lawyer</em> <br> <em>Hamlet</em>: Death, Property, and the Pursuit of Justice

Thomas Regnier* Abstract: This essay, by distinguished American legal scholar Thomas Regnier, looks at the extraordinary knowledge of the law that Shakespeare—whoever he was—displayed in numerous plays, especially Hamlet. Originally published in the academic journal Brief Chronicles (2011: Vol. III) and edited

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The Argument for Edward de Vere: “Shake-speare” Was a Man of the Theatre

The Argument for Edward de Vere: “Shake-speare” Was a Man of the Theatre

Hank Whittemore* Abstract: Whoever the author of the Shakespeare canon was, he had to be a man of the theatre. American actor Hank Whittemore argues that one of the leading candidates for the honor was himself someone with significant theatrical

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Pourquoi ‘John Florio, alias Shakespeare’ ?

Pourquoi <em>‘John Florio, alias Shakespeare’</em> ?

Michel Vaïs* Résumé: La question de la paternité de l’œuvre de Shakespeare revient brusquement dans l’actualité avec la recherche révolutionnaire de Lamberto Tassinari. L’intuition de ce Montréalais, italien d’origine, fasciné par le transculturel, lui fait remettre en question un mythe séculaire.

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An Interview with Mark Rylance
“It’s important to know how great works of theatre are made”

An Interview with Mark Rylance<br>“It’s important to know how great works of theatre are made”

Abstract: The former artistic director of the rebuilt Globe Theatre in London argues, in a 2018 BBC interview, that if great works of theatre are to be made in future, it is important to understand how such works were created

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