India's Shakespeare : translation, interpretation, and performance
"This collection of essays examines the diverse aspects of the more than two hundred years of interaction between Shakespeare and India, a relationship (the longest and most widespread outside of Europe) which is embedded in the contradictions of colonialism - a matrix of simultaneous submission and resistance. For, while the study of Shakespeare was an imperial imposition, the performance of Shakespeare was not. Shakespeare, translated and adapted on the commercial stage during the late nineteenth century, was widely successful; a colonizing master text became, and remains to this day, the most published and performed western author in India."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780874138818, 0874138817
55055041
Introduction / Poonam Trivedi
Shakespeare in Indian Languages / Sisir Kumar Das
Colonizing love: Romeo and Juliet in modern Indian disseminations / Harish Trivedi
Appropriating Shakespeare freely: Parsi Theater's first Urdu play Khurshid / Javed Malick
Translation and performance of Shakespeare in Kannada / Vijaya Guttal
Toward a terrestrial divine comedy: a study of the Winter's Tale and Shakuntalam / R.A. Malagi
England, the Indian boy, and the spice trade in A Midsummer Night's Dream / R.W. Desai
Shakespeare's India / Sukanta Chaudhuri
"Folk Shakespeare": the performance of Shakespeare in traditional Indian theater forms / Poonam Trivedi
"A sea change into something rich and strange": Ekbal Ahmed's Macbeth and Hamlet / Laxmi Chandrashekar
An Indian (Mid)summer: Bagro Basant Hai / Shormishtha Panja
Re-creating The Merchant of Venice on the Indian stage: a director's note / Ananda Lal
Shylock's shoes
the art of localization / Dennis Bartholomeusz
Playing the canon: Shakespeare and the Bengali actress in nineteenth-century Calcutta / Debjani Sengupta
That sublime "old gentleman": Shakespeare's plays in Calcutta, 1775-1930 / Sarottama Majumdar
Shakespeare in Hindi Cinema / Rajiva Verma