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Queen Goneril

by (author) Erin Shields

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2023
Subjects
Women Authors, Canadian

Single logical reading order

EPUB Accessibility Specification 1.0 AA

Table of contents navigation

Next / Previous structural navigation

Language tagging provided

Accessible controls provided

No reading system accessibility options actively disabled (except)

ARIA roles provided

WCAG level AA

Compliance certification by:
https://bornaccessible.org/certification/gca-credential/

Short alternative textual descriptions

Landmark navigation

Accessibility summary:
A simple book with the cover, author, and logo images described. This book contains various accessibility features such as a table of contents, page list, landmarks, correct reading order, structural navigation, and semantic structure. A number of blank pages in the print equivalent book have been removed resulting in some pages not appearing in this digital EPUB. This publication conforms to WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

Compliance web page for detailed accessibility information:
http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/accessibility-20170105.html#wcag-aa

All textual content can be modified

WCAG v2.0

Print-equivalent page numbering

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780369104540
    Publish Date
    Sep 2023
    List Price
    $13.99

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Description

  • Multiple academic tie-ins: feminist, revisionist prequel of classic literature.
  • Erin is renowned and uniquely skilled for this approach to storytelling.
  • Education: Rose Bruford College London, UK (1996–1999) – Hons, BA / University of Toronto, English Department (2004–2008) – Hons, BA.
  • Queen Goneril was commissioned and first produced by Soulpepper Theatre Company in 2022.

About the author

Editorial Reviews

Queen Goneril stays credible and remains compelling to its conclusion—and, thankfully, has its own enjoyable in-between dramatic voice; nothing too mock-Shakespearean, but unafraid to sample and remix his words.”

J. Kelly Nestruck, The Globe and Mail

“... a post-modern wink to let us know that the crimes and micro-aggressions against women in the past still exist.”

Drew Rowsome, MyGayToronto

“Shields’ script imbues the sisters with complex and sympathetic human motivations—love, empathy, fear, jealousy, shame, rage—which are constricted by the suffocating cellophane of social mores, race, class and gender. These are characters striving to be their best, while society and circumstance reduce them to clawing holes and gasping for air.”

Scott Sneddon, SesayArts Magazine