Fw: Boundaries

[Anton Wagner]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Herbert <Ian at theatrerecord.demon.co.uk>
To: Anton Wagner <awagner at yorku.ca>
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 12:52 PM
Subject: Boundaries


>Dear Anton
>
>I don't have the same space as Carol Douglass but you might like to see
>the para on your book that appears in the first issue of 2000, Nos 1-2,
>of THEATRE RECORD, along with another on WECT. It goes out today.
>
>While we're talking about books and critics, I should draw your
>attention to Establishing Our Boundaries,  edited by Anton Wagner for
>the University of Toronto Press and available from them at a mere £45.
>Subtitled English-Canadian Theatre Criticism, it's a very thorough set
>of essays by Canadian academics on the careers of twenty-one theatre
>critics from English-speaking Canada. In gathering their critical
>experience, Dr Wagner has sought to fill a significant gap in Canadian
>cultural history.  He has achieved this, at the same time producing a
>revealing picture of the gradual emergence of a truly national theatre
>for English Canada through the eyes of those who chronicled it.
>
>One of the critics profiled in that book is Professor Don Rubin of York
>University in Toronto, editor of a massive undertaking which last year
>reached its completion:  the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
>is now available in five highly comprehensive volumes from Routledge.
>Dealing respectively with Europe, The Americas, Africa, The Arab World
>and Asia/Pacific, they offer a complete, illustrated history of world
>theatre since 1945, country by country, dealing not only with some 160
>countries' major companies, directors and performers but also with more
>specialised aspects such as design, architecture, dance, training,
>puppetry, publishing - and criticism. This astonishing editorial venture
>will be completed this year with a reference volume containing a
>bibliography and a comprehensive index.
>
>
>Best wishes
>--
>Ian Herbert