Women and Indian Shakespeares

Thea Buckley is a Research Assistant at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK.Sangeeta Datta is a writer, director, independent filmmaker and cultural commentator, India/UK. She is Director of Baithak, a non-profits arts company, and Stormglass Productions. Rosa García-Periago is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors AcknowledgementsA Note on ReferencesIntroduction: Thea Buckley, Mark Thornton Burnett, Sangeeta Datta and Rosa García-PeriagoChapter One: Poonam Trivedi (University of Delhi), ‘The “woman’s part”: Recovering the Contribution of Women to the Circulation of Shakespeare in India’Chapter Two: Paromita Chakravarti (Jadavpur University), ‘Framing Femininities: Desdemona and Indian Modernities’Chapter Three: Priyanka Basu (King's College, London, UK) and Arani Ilankuberan (British Library), ‘Indian Shakespeares in the British Library Collections: Translation, Indigeneity and Representation’Chapter Four: Thea Buckley (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Women Translating Shakespeare in South India: Hemanta Katha, or The Winter’s Tale’Chapter Five: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast) and Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University), ‘“I dare do all that may become a man”: Martial Desires and Women as Warriors in Veeram, a Film Adaptation of Macbeth’Chapter Six: Taarini Mookherjee (Columbia University), ‘“You should be women”: Bengali Femininity and the Supernatural in Adaptations of Macbeth’Chapter Seven: Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College), ‘Romeo and Juliet Meets Rural India: Sairat and the Representation of Women’Chapter Eight: Jennifer T. Birkett (Notre Dame University), ‘Dy(e)ing Hands: The Hennaed Female Agent in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Tragedies’ Chapter Nine: Rosa García-Periago (University of Murcia), ‘Embattled Bodies: Women, Land and Contemporary Politics in Arshinagar, a Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet’Chapter Ten: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Where the Wild Things are: Shifting Identities in Noblemen, a Film Adaptation of The Merchant of Venice’Chapter Eleven: N. P. Ashley (St Stephen’s College, Delhi), ‘Women Punctuating Shakespeare: Campus Theatrical Experiment, the Shakespeare Society and the Insider/Outsider Dialectic’ Chapter Twelve: Bornila Chatterjee (filmmaker), Sangeeta Datta (filmmaker), Annette Leday (Annette Leday/Keli Company), Sreedevi Nair (NSS College for Women), Preti Taneja (University of Newcastle), ‘Adapting Shakespeare: Directors and Practitioners in Conversation’ Appendix: Priyanka Basu (King's College, London) and Arani Ilankuberan (British Library), ‘A Selection of Shakespeare Translations/Adaptations from the British Library North Indian Languages Collection’Index

A significant anthology that redefines what it means to study Shakespeare in a postcolonial, feminist context … For scholars, students, and practitioners eager to rethink Shakespeare beyond the Western canon, this volume is an indispensable and inspiring resource.