Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory

Jyotsna G. Singh is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture and Postcolonial Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

An excellent, thoroughly researched book that breaks new ground pushing the field of postcolonial Shakespeare studies in a promising direction … This text provides richly detailed, in-depth analysis of specific productions and the key critical influences of seminal scholarly works … Highly engaging.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: ‘An Inventory of Traces’PART I – SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY COLONIAL HISTORYChapter One: Historical Contexts 1: Shakespeare and the Colonial ImaginaryChapter Two: Historical Contexts 2: Shakespeare’s World and Productions of Difference PART II – SHAKESPEARE, DECOLONIZATION, POSTCOLONIAL THEORYChapter Three: Past and Present: Shakespeare–Postcoloniality Chapter Four: Intersectionalities: Postcoloniality and DifferencePART III – SHAKESPEARE, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND RECEPTION HISTORIES: PERFORMANCE AND FILMChapter Five: Global, Intercultural ShakespearesChapter Six: Boundary-Crossings on the British Shakespearean StageChapter Seven: Shakespeare in Postcolonial Cinema: A Meditation on Haider/Hamlet: Reconstituting the Cultural Ruins of KashmirNotesReferencesIndex