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Performing Shakespeare in India : exploring indianness, literatures and cultures / edited by Shormishtha Panja, Babli Moitra Saraf.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Appreciation--India.
- English drama.
- Theater--India--History.
- Theater.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--India.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, [California] : Sage, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An adaptation of Shakespeare's plays as a basis of critical exploration of identity formation in India. Even while a conscious dismantling of colonization was happening since the 19th century, the Indian literati, intellectuals, scholars and dramaturges were engaged in deconstructing the ultimate icon of colonial presence--Shakespeare. This book delves into what constitutes Indianness in the postcolonial context by looking into the text and sub-text of the Bard of Avon's plays adapted in visual culture, translation, stage performance and cinema. The book is an important intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, as it explores how Shakespeare has impacted the emergence of regional identities around questions of language and linguistic empowerment in various ways. It reveals an extraordinary negotiation of colonial and postcolonial identity issues--be it in language, in social and cultural practices or in art forms.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 "To Confine the Illimitable" Visual and Verbal Narratives in Two Bengali Retellings of Shakespeare
- Chapter 3 Urban Histories and Vernacular Shakespeares in Bengal
- Chapter 4 Shakespeare and the Re/Vision of Indian Heritage in the Postcolonial British Context
- Chapter 5 Indian Shakespeare in the World Shakespeare Festival
- Chapter 6 The Othello-figure in Three Indian Films
- Chapter 7 Shakespeareana to Shakespeare Wallah
- Chapter 8 Mapping Shakespearean Translations in Indian Literatures
- Chapter 9 "Murmuring Your Praise": Shakespearean Echoes in Early Bengali Drama
- Chapter 10 A Future Without Shakespeare
- Chapter 11 Does Shakespeare's Text Even Matter?
- Chapter 12 Utpal Dutt and Macbeth Translated
- Chapter 13 Tagore and Shakespeare A Fraught Relationship
- Chapter 14 Mapping Shakesp eare and Kalidasa: Early Indian Translations
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 93-5150-975-3
- OCLC:
- 954010247
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