28 October 2005
if ("readings" != syllabus) { ?>if ("readings" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("readings" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("readings" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("readings" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Bohannon, "Shakespeare in the Bush"
(Online: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/Essays/Shakes_in_Bush.htm)
As an English professor, I resist announcing to my students what a particular work "means." While I don't believe that anything and everything goes, to paraphrase Hamlet, "There are more interpretations in heaven and earth/Than are dreamt of in your Cliffs Notes."
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