{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"34 - Early Theatre: Performing Society","description":"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! --- Sources &amp;amp; Further Reading:  Charlesbois, Gaetan, and Anne Nothop. \u201cCanadian Theatre History,\u201d Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, Athabasca University Press, October 2020. Conolly, L. W., and Richard Plant. &quot;Drama in English. The beginnings to 1953.&quot; 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&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;pg=GBS.PA3 Doucette, L. E. &quot;Drama in French. The beginnings to 1900.&quot; 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&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;pg=GBS.PA5 Jones, Heather. \u201cClass, Culture, and Belief: The Contexts of Charles Heavysege\u2019s Christian Poetry,\u201d Canadian Literature, no. 213, pp. 141-155, 2012. https:\/\/canlit.ca\/full-issue\/?issue=213 Lescarbot, Marc. Le th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Neptune, 1606,  http:\/\/www.optative.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sinkingneptune.pdf (English version starts on page 31) Newton, Norman. \u201cClassical Canadian Poetry and the Public Muse,\u201d Canadian Literature, no. 51, pp. 39-52, 1972. https:\/\/canlit.ca\/full-issue\/?issue=51 Tait, Michael. \u201cPlaywrights in a Vacuum: English-Canadian Drama in the Nineteenth Century,\u201d Canadian Literature, no. 16, pp. 5-18, 1963. https:\/\/canlit.ca\/full-issue\/?issue=16  --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) &amp;amp; Facebook (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CanLitHistory). --- Support: Patreon (https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https:\/\/historiacanadiana.wordpress.com\/books\/) and our apparel (http:\/\/tee.pub\/lic\/Ges5M2WpsBw) ","author_name":"A Cultural History of Canada","author_url":"https:\/\/historiacanadiana.wordpress.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/23720675\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/131767799"}