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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>Dear Colleagues,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>In my recent email about <EM>The Literary
Encyclopedia</EM> I wrote that 108 playwrights are listed--as a start. I
should have made it clear that these playwrights are <EM>Canadian</EM>; other
parts of <EM>The Encyclopedia</EM> have profiles on playwrights from other
nations/regions/cultures. I should perhaps have also noted that one of the
advantages in producing these profiles online is the fact that they can be
revised once new information becomes available and new critical ideas are
developed. The profiles are not only of playwrights; in time, there will
be detailed profiles--small but important critical studies in their own
right--of individual plays. So far, the only one to appear is Moira Day's
excellent piece on Gwen Pharis Ringwood's <U>Still Stands the House</U>.
For the time being, this can only be accessed through the Simple Search option
by using the play title as the keyword. This is a technical problem that
will soon be solved.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>--Denis Salter.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>--Denis Salter.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>__________________________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>"To celebrate this award, and the work it
recognizes of those around the world, let me recall the words<BR>of Gandhi: My
life is my message. Also, plant a tree."--Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004
Nobel <BR>Peace Prize.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>" . . . and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: <BR>nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."<BR> Isaiah
2.4<BR>___________________<BR>Denis Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill
University<BR>853 Sherbrooke Street West<BR>Montreal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514)
398 6550<BR>Fax (514) 398 8146<BR><A
href="mailto:d.salter@videotron.ca">d.salter@videotron.ca</A><BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A><BR>__________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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