Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay pays homage to Leland Roloff by exploring the influence on Marshall McLuhan of his mother Elsie Hall McLuhan’s career as a platform elocutionist, bridging periods in the history of Performance Studies. Canadian-born Elsie Hall McLuhan (1889–1961) studied elocution and expression and toured her platform recitals in the 1920s and 1930s. Her programs included solo performances of plays, character sketches (some in dialect), and other works of literature ranging from lowbrow to highbrow. Accounts of Elsie McLuhan’s performance career and her correspondence with her son provide evidence of influence on her son’s intellectual development.
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