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"Hamlet's dilemma"- Jerry joins discussion at Jaipur Literature Festival

On 22nd January Jerry Brotton joined Vishal Bhardwaj, Basharat Peer and Tim Supple in a conversation facilitated by Suhel Seth at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Vishal Bhardwaj’s celebrated film ‘Haider’ interprets the political history of the conflicted Kashmir valley in the context of Shakespearean tragedy. In conversation with Tim Supple, who has directed an Indian adaptation of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and journalist and author Basharat Peer, who has also scripted Haider, Bhardwaj discussed the anguish of Hamlet’s dilemma as well as his other Bollywood interpretations of the bard. Jerry Brotton, Global Shakespeare's Associate Director joined the lively discussion which can be watched here.

Wed 04 Feb 2015, 13:55

Global Shakespeare Seminar Series at Warwick

On Tuesday 3rd February the first in the seminar series at Warwick University this term will be led by our visiting fellow José Roberto O'Shea from the Universidade de Santa Catarina, Brazil. O'Shea joins us to discuss issues surrounding Shakespeare and translation. His talk is entitled "Desacralising Shakespeare’s ‘Word’ through Linguistic and Cultural Translation".

The following week on Tuesday 10th February we will have the opportunity to introduce the Global Shakespeare project and our own team's current research.

Later on in the series, on Tuesday 17th February, we hear from Tom Cheesman from Swansea University introducing his digital translation project Delighted Beauty in a talk entitled "Mapping Shakespeare Translations: Experiments with Visualization".

Seminars are held between 5-7m, F25A, Milburn House. More details here.

Mon 02 Feb 2015, 14:03

Shakespeare wades into Indian freedom of expression row

Article by Research Fellow, Preti Taneja, published today: http://theconversation.com/shakespeare-wades-into-indian-freedom-of-expression-row-34946

This follows her recent thought provoking online Guardian article: "It is time to break the national monopoly on Shakespeare".

Global Shakespeare discussions are underway!

Fri 05 Dec 2014, 16:06