Canadian Theatre History: Selected Readings

Abstract

In our review article for this issue, Stephen Johnson assesses the contribution of Don Rubin’s recent collection of readings to the body of Canadian theatre history. He offers an account of the book in the context of larger concerns informing the role of theatre historians whose task it is to situate the documents they record, but who are themselves historically situated. Johnson reads the individual documents in the collection in this way, but also points to the role of the editorial process in “mediating” the past in this kind of history.