Virtually Canadian

Abstract

Almost certainly, in every Canadian city, some theatre at some point in each and every year will produce a Shakespeare play, motivated in no small part by the fact that their production will likely have little difficulty finding an audience. This is because, as Michael Bristol has told us, “there is no doubt that Shakespeare is one of the great show business success stories” (viii). It is not Shakespeare’s blue-chip cultural capital that surely motivated the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation web site to choose him as its Artist of the Millennium? (see CBC, Act II).