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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Shakespeare and Bollywood: The Difference a World Makes
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Bollywood’s Debt to the Theater: Aesthetic and Cultural Multivalence
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Shakespeare’s Local Face: Using Shakespeare to Rearticulate Indian Identities
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Bollywood’s Cultural Capital: Bollywood Sells Shakespeare
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About this book
Reviews
"Shakespeare came to India during the British empire on the project of the 'civilizing mission.' Bollywood Shakespeares compellingly brings to life appropriations and adaptations of Shakespeare as a window into hybrid, post-national identities emerging from a global consumer culture in India today. In a theoretically nuanced framing argument, Dionne and Kapadia explore the interface between Shakespeare's theatre and the global stage of Bollywood cinema, while the ensuing essays examine in rich detail how Bollywood "uses" Shakespeare to represent and examine modern Indian life. Bollywood Shakespeares is an important and timely study into the politics of global culture and of the place of Shakespeare within it." - Jyotsna G. Singh, Professor of English, Michigan State University, USA
"This edited collection traces the historical origins of Bollywood's engagement with the Bard to Parsi theater, provides nuanced readings of well-established films (such as Shakespeare Wallah),and introduces readers to some less familiar ones (such as The Last Lear). Collectively, the essays in Bollywood Shakespeares demonstrate how both terms in the book's title are complicated and unsettled by their interaction. The volume also makes a significant contribution to theoretical discussion of the relationship between Shakespearean appropriation/adaptation and the rapidly changing field of Global Shakespeare." - Christy Desmet, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bollywood Shakespeares
Editors: Craig Dionne, Parmita Kapadia
Series Title: Reproducing Shakespeare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375568
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38612-0Published: 27 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48148-4Published: 27 March 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37556-8Published: 17 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2730-9304
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9312
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 208
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Performing Arts, British and Irish Literature, Literature, general, Film History, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature