Who owns meaning?

Inaugural session of World Shakespeares Reading/Discussion Group

The article for this session is Laura Bohannan's 1966 "Shakespeare in the Bush: An American anthropologist set out to study the Tiv of West Africa and was taught the true meaning of Hamlet"

Available at: http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/editors_pick/1966_08-09_pick.html
or: http://law.ubalt.edu/downloads/law_downloads/IRC_Shakespeare_in_the_Bush.pdf

• Email Saffron at sjw525@york.ac.uk for further information, or just turn up (Berrick Saul Building, Jane Moody Boardroom,Ground Floor)
  

World Shakespeares Reading/Discussion Group

Download schedule here: World Shakespeares Schedule (PDF , 20kb)

You don’t have to be a ’Shakespearean’ to come to this group – postmodernists, post-colonialists, Queer theorists and anti-Bardolatrors are just as welcome.  Participants will have co-ownership of the content and may introduce additional material.  

The World Shakespeare Festival runs from  April to September 2012:
Globe to Globe http://globetoglobe.shakespearesglobe.com/
World Shakespeare Festival http://www.worldshakespearefestival.org.uk/

Online Resources include the open access Global Shakespeares (Videos and Archives) http://globalshakespeares.org/#   and Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive  http://a-s-i-a-web.org/

Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Two Gents Production of Hamlet Relocated to the Zimbabwean Bush - in performance 2.30 and 7.30pm, Saturday 12 May, Box Office T:01723 370541  
http://www.sjt.uk.com/details.asp?id=682