Women and Indian Shakespeares

Women and Indian Shakespeares explores the multiple ways in which women, and those identifying as women, are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India. Women's engagements encompass the full range of media, from translation to cinematic adaptation and from early colonial performance to contemporary theatrical experiment. Simultaneously, Women and Indian Shakespeares makes visible the ways in which women are figured in various representational registers as resistant agents, martial seductresses, redemptive daughters, victims of caste discrimination, conflicted spaces and global citizens. In so doing, the collection reorients existing lines of investigation, extends the disciplinary field, brings into visibility still occluded subjects and opens up radical readings. More broadly, the collection identifies how, in Indian Shakespeares on page, stage and screen, women increasingly possess the ability to shape alternative futures across patriarchal and societal barriers of race, caste, religion and class.

In repeated iterations, the collection turns our attention to localized modes of adaptation that enable opportunities for women while celebrating Shakespeare's gendered interactions in India's rapidly changing, and increasingly globalized, cultural, economic and political environment. In the contributions, we see a transformed Shakespeare, a playwright who appears differently when seen through the gendered eyes of a new Indian, diasporic and global generation of critics, historians, archivists, practitioners and directors. Radically imagining Indian Shakespeares with women at the centre, Women and Indian Shakespeares interweaves history, regional geography/regionality, language and the present day to establish a record of women as creators and adapters of Shakespeare in Indian contexts.

Author: Thea Buckley
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Published: 07/14/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781350234321

About the Author
Burnett, Mark Thornton: - Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His books include Shakespeare and World Cinema (2013), 'Hamlet' and World Cinema (2019), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (2002) and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2007; 2nd ed. 2012). He is series editor of the Arden Shakespeare series Shakespeare and Adaptation.Buckley, Thea: - Thea Buckley is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Buckley previously worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and has published work in Reviewing Shakespeare, Cahiers Élisabethains, Theatre Notebook, Shakespeare Bulletin, The Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, A Year of Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare, 2013), Multicultural Shakespeare (2014) and Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas: Local Habitations (2018).Datta, Sangeeta: - "Sangeeta Datta is a writer/director, independent filmmaker and cultural commentator. She is director of Baithak - a non-profit arts company - and Stormglass Productions. Trained and published in Tagore music, Datta has been a research fellow at the University of Sussex and SOAS, UK, and is the co-author, with Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta, of Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art, (2015). Her critically acclaimed work includes the award-winning feature film adaptation of King Lear, Life Goes On (2009), the stage productions The Dying Song (2008) and Gitanjali 100 (2013-14), and the documentary, Bird of Dusk (2018)."
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