Women and Indian Shakespeares

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Thea Buckley (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

Women and Indian Shakespeares

Thea Buckley (Queen’s University Belfast, UK), Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Sangeeta Datta (Independent filmmaker) , Rosa García-Periago (University of Murcia, Spain)

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The Arden Shakespeare
25 January 2024

Theatre Studies; Film theory & criticism; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Gender studies: women

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation

Women and Indian Shakespeares explores the multiple ways in which 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.

Edited by: Thea Buckley (Queen’s University Belfast UK), Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Sangeeta Datta (Independent filmmaker), Rosa García-Periago (University of Murcia, Spain)
Series edited by: Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast UK)
Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350234369
ISBN 10: 1350234362
Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 25 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.