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_aEight Men Speak : _ba Play in 6 Acts / _cOscar Ryan, Edward Cecil-Smith, Frenk Love, and Mildred Goldberg; edited and with an introduction by Alan Filewod. |
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250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aOttawa : _bUniversity of Ottawa Press, _c2013. |
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_ali, 110 p. : _bill., portraits ; _c21 cm. |
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440 | _aCanadian Literature | ||
500 | _aIncludes bibliographical references. | ||
500 | _aAlso available in a digital format; check the OMNI catalogue. | ||
505 | _aCritical Introduction | ||
505 | _a1. Eight Men Speak in Historical Context | ||
505 | _a2. Authorship: Coalescent Dramaturgy | ||
505 | _a3. The Theatrical Modernism of Eight Men Speak | ||
505 | _a4. Reception | ||
505 | _aEight Men Speak | ||
505 | _aForeword | ||
505 | _aAct I | ||
505 | _aAct II | ||
505 | _aAct III | ||
505 | _aAct IV | ||
505 | _aAct V | ||
505 | _aAct VI | ||
505 | _aDossier: Documents, Reports and Reviews | ||
505 | _aExplanatory Notes | ||
505 | _aTextual Notes | ||
505 | _aWorks Cited | ||
520 | _a"This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage – the published text – of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf Gardens when the (then illegal) Communist Party of Canada celebrated the release of its leader, Tim Buck, from prison. Eight Men Speak had been written and staged on behalf of the campaign to free Buck by the Canadian Labour Defence League, the public advocacy group of the CPC. In its theatrical techniques, incorporating avant-garde expressionist staging, mass chant, agitprop and modernist dramaturgy, Eight Men Speak exemplified the vanguardist aesthetics of the Communist left in the years before the Popular Front. It is the first instance of the collective theatrical techniques that would become widespread in subsequent decades and formative in the development of modern Canadian drama. These include a decentred narrative, collaborative authorship and a refusal of dramaturgical linearity in favour of theatricalist demonstration. As such it is one of the most significant Canadian plays of the first half of the century, and, on the evidence of the surviving photograph of the mise-en-scene, one of the earliest examples of modernist staging in Canada." (Publisher's Website) | ||
521 | _aProficient readers. C1/C2 (CEFR) | ||
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_aBuck, Tim _d1891-1973 _xDrama. |
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_aRyan, Oscar _d1904- |
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_aCanadian drama _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. |
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_aPolitical plays, Canadian _vHistory and criticism. |
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650 | _aC1/C2 (CEFR). | ||
650 | _aProficient learners. | ||
700 | _aCecil-Smith, Edward | ||
700 | _aLove, Frank | ||
700 | _aGoldberg, Mildred | ||
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_uhttps://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776607962/eight-men-speak/ _zPublisher's Website. |
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_uhttps://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/1lm0b9c/alma991004042839705161 _zCheck the uOttawa Library catalogue. |
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