Special section, Shakespeare in India / general editors, Tom Bishop and Alexander C.Y. Huang ; editor emeritus, Graham Bradshaw ; special guest editor, Sukanta Chaudhuri.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Part I: Special Section: Shakespeare in India; 1 Introduction: Shakespeare in India; 2 Impudent Imperialists: Burlesque and the Bard in Nineteenth-Century India; 3 "Every college student knows by heart": The Uses of Shakespeare in Colonial Bengal; 4 Shakespeare in Maharashtra, 1892-1927: A Note on a Trend in Marathi Theatre and Theatre Criticism; 5 Story-teller, Poet, Playwright: Three Oriya Translations of Shakespeare (1908-1959); 6 "We the globe can compass soon": Tim Supple's Dream

7 Shakespeare in Indian Cinema: Appropriation, Assimilation, and Engagement8 "What bloody man is that?" Macbeth, Maqbool, and Shakespeare in India; 9 Reading Intertextualities in Rituporno Ghosh's The Last Lear: The Politics of Recanonization; Part II; 10 "To what base uses we may return": Deconstruction of Hamlet in Contemporary Drama; 11 Rethinking Shylock; Part III; 12 The Field in Review: New Biography Studies, Queer Turns in Theory, and Shakespearean Utility; 13 The Field in Review: Textual Studies, Performance Criticism, and Digital Humanities; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index

The twelfth issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook celebrates India's intense engagement with Shakespeare, exploring cinema, theatre and education in particular. Debuting the review essay as a new feature of the Yearbook, this volume presents two such essays, on 'New Biography Studies, Queer Turns in Theory, and Shakespearean Utility, ' and 'Textual Studies, Performance Criticism, and Digital Humanities'. Among the contributors are Shakespearean scholars from India, Poland, the UK and the US.

English.

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