Chapter 8
Indian Fakespeare
The idea of Shakespeare in translation
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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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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