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In:Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
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Chapter 9
Transculturating Shakespeare

Vishal Bhardwaj’s Mumbai Macbeth

Published online: 16 October 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.10men
Article outline
  • Acts of Shakespearean recontextualization
  • Recontextualization in Maqbool
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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