In:Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 141–158
Chapter 8Indian Fakespeare
The idea of Shakespeare in translation
Published online: 16 October 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.09cas
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.09cas
Article outline
- Shakespearean adaptation
- Bhardwaj’s “Shakespeare”
- Fakespeares and the anti-pastiche
- Shakespeare and hyperreality
- Translating Shakespeare
- Glocalized, post-independence, and crosshatched Shakespeares
- Specters and liminalities
- Ghosts of Shakespeares yet-to-come
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