Speaking: 5th World Shakespeare Congress [Tokyo], 11-17 August 1991

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900041Scope and ContentContains: Invitation and correspondence concerning Greer participation in the Fifth World Shakespeare Congress: Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions, organised by the International Shakespeare Association, and held in Tokyo, 11-17/8/1991. Greer gave plenary paper titled, 'The Offstage Mob: Shakespeare's Proletariat', 14/8/1991. Includes Congress programme with interleaved information material for participants; booklet Shakespeare in Japan: one hundred years of reception and transformation; Crowley Travel: travel arrangements and itinerary; correspondence on travel, visa and funding (Greer received 2,000 pounds grant from The International Shakespeare Association); passport size colour photographs of Greer (3 headshots on strip, short hair, wearing pearls); laser print of typescript (one page missing) of Greer review of book by Gary Taylor, Reinventing Shakespeare, with attached note from Taylor suggesting meeting; letter from Roger Pringle 5/3/1992 with release form, signed by Greer 9/3/1992, for publication of Congress papers. Correspondents: Germaine Greer; Frances Hendron (for Germaine Greer); Roger Pringle, Secretary, The International Shakespeare Association; Stanley Wells, University of Birmingham / Chairman, World Shakespeare Congress Committee; Philip Hickson, The Crowley Travel Agency; Gary Taylor. Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; The Offstage Mob: Shakespeare's Proletariat; William Shakespeare; Conferences. Related to: 2014.0056.00024: Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Tokyo, 1991Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0002

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date14 September 1990-3 March 1992

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Speaking: 5th World Shakespeare Congress [Tokyo], 11-17 August 1991