Bollywood Shakespeares

1. Shakespeare and Bollywood: The Difference a World Makes
Craig Dionne, Parmita Kapadia

Part I. Bollywood’s Debt to the Theater: Aesthetic and Cultural Multivalence

2. Parsi Shakespeare: The Precursor to “Bollywood Shakespeare”
Vikram Singh Thakur

3. Bollywood Battles the Bard: The Evolving Relationship between Film and Theater in Shakespeare Wallah
Parmita Kapadia

Part II. Shakespeare’s Local Face: Using Shakespeare to Rearticulate Indian Identities

4. The Ambiguities of Bollywood Conventions and the Reading of Transnationalism in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool
Rosa M García-Periago

5. No Country for Young Women:Empowering Emilia in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara
Mike Heidenberg

6. The Global as Local/Othello as Omkara
Brinda Charry, Gitanjali Shahani

Part III. Bollywood’s Cultural Capital: Bollywood Sells Shakespeare

7. Interrogating “Bollywood Shakespeare”: Reading Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear
Paromita Chakravarti

8. The Sounds of India in Supple’s Twelfth Night
Kendra Preston Leonard

9. Comedies of Errors: Shakespeare,Indian Cinema, and the Poetics of Mistaken Identity
Richard Allen

10. Afterword: Shakespeare and Bollywood
Poonam Trivedi

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, British and Irish Literature, Literature, general, Film History, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature