Publication

2013 - University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa

Language

English

Word Count

41,750 words, Guess

Page Count

167 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPR9199.3.R89E45 2013

Description

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 Gardens when the (then illegal) Communist Party of Canada celebrated the release of its leader, Tim Buck, from prison. Eight Men Speak had been written and staged on behalf of the campaign to free Buck by the Canadian Labour Defence League, the public advocacy group of the CPC.--Provided by publisher.

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Other Editions

  • Eight Men SpeakUniversity of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa2013

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