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  • Committing Theatre

    Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada

    by Alan Filewod ...
    Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book’s historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Voyageur Modern Canadian Literature 5-Book Bundle

    The Silence on the Shore / Combat Journal for Place d'Armes / The Donnellys / In This Poem I Am / Canadian Exploration Literature

    by Germaine Warkentin, James Reaney, Hugh Garner, Scott Symons, Robin Skelton ...
    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductions. In this bundle we find five classic works of twentieth century fiction, drama and poetry, a period when Canada’s literary identity was shaped. Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be renowned Hugh Garner’s best, most ambitious novel. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Donnellys

    by James Reaney ...
    Series Book 9 - Voyageur Classics
    Based on the true story of an Irish family with seven sons and one daughter immigrating to Biddulph Township near London, Ontario, in 1844, The Donnellys tells the tale of mystery and truths stranger than fiction. It is the story of a secret society and a massacre that shocked the Canadian public, a story overlooked by the artistic community until Reaney's play elevated the events to the level of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The CTR Anthology

    Fifteen Plays from Canadian Theatre Review

    Edited by Alan Filewod ...
    Series series Heritage
    Since its inception in 1974, Canadian Theatre Review has been one of the most important publishers of new Canadian plays. With a script in each issue, CTR has introduced new writers and advocated new approaches to Canadian drama.This volume brings together fifteen of the most significant plays published in CTR between 1974 and 1991. Most have been out of print since their appearance in the journal ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Reliving the Trenches

    Memory Plays by Veterans of the Great War

    Edited by Alan Filewod ...
    In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical introduction that references the authors' service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War.Important but overlooked ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Eight Men Speak

    A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

    by Oscar Ryan, Edward Cecil-Smith, Frank Love, Mildred Goldberg ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Donnelly Album

    The Complete & Authentic Account of Canada’s Famous Feuding Family

    by RAY FAZAKAS ...
    The Donnelly Album By now everyone in Canada knows at least one version of the brutal slaying of members of the Donnelly family on the night of February 3, 1880. The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys—James and Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving in Canada from Tipperary, Ireland, in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous Irish ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • In Search of the Donnellys

    Second Revised Edition

    by RAY FAZAKAS ...
    The massacre of the Donnellys by their fellow church members has fascinated the public in the English-speaking world for well over a hundred years. Contained in this book are intriguing new photographs never before published and significant new information, which will pique the interest even of those who have been familiar for years with this bit of North American folk history with Irish roots. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle

    All Else Is Folly / Pauline Johnson / The Town Below / Self Condemned / Storm Below / The Yellow Briar / Maria Chapdelaine

    by Peregrine Acland, Pauline Johnson, Roger Lemelin, Hugh Garner, Patrick Slater, Louis Hemon, Wyndham Lewis ...
    Translated by W.H. Blake ...
    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature from Quebec (Maria Chapdelaine, The Town Below), a collection of the best of the legendary Pauline Johnson, Peregrine Acland’s gripping Great War novel All Else is ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Black Donnellys

    by Thomas P. Kelley ...
    "When that Donnelly glares at you, you hear the sound of shovels digging your Grave"Not far from London, Ontario, even brave men feared to ride at night. The Donnellys were feared and hated, but their reign of bloodshed and terror persistently prevailed...until one man planned a terrible revenge. Here is the story of the most savage feud, tales of past terrors and lawlessness almost beyond belief ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Donnellys

    The outrageous tale of Canada's deadliest feud

    by Nate Hendley ...
    Series series Amazing Canadians
    The gruesome saga of the Black Donnellys has been heavily mythologized beginning with the first book on the story by Thomas Kelley in 1954. A thick layer of rumour, legend and hearsay has built up around the facts of the case. But one thing is clear — the murderous events that occurred near the town of Lucan, Ontario, in the 1870s are unforgettable.This new edition of Black Donnellys by Nate ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Cursed! Blood of the Donnellys

    A Novel Based on a True Story

    by Keith Ross Leckie ...
    In the midst of the feuds and famine of Tipperary, Ireland in 1845, Jim Donnelly and Johannah McGee fall passionately in love. She is the beautiful daughter of an affluent estate manager, he the rebellious son of dispossessed peasants. With her father’s men in pursuit and a sizable price on Jim’s head, they board a ship set for Canada to start a new life and put the troubles of the old country ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus