India's Shakespeare : translation, interpretation, and performance

271 Pages·2005·9.39 MB·English

by  Dennis Bartholomeusz, Poonam Trivedi

PEARSON
INDIA’S
S
h a k e s p e a r e
Translation, Interpretation and Performance
Edited by
Poonam Trivedi
Dennis Bartholomeusz
INDIA’S
SHAKESPEARE
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INDIA’S
SHAKESPEARE
Translation, Interpretation,
and Performance
Edited by Poonam Trivedi and
Dennis Bartholomeusz
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Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Poonam Tr ivedi
Part I: Translation
Shakespeare in Indian Languages
Sisir Kumar Das
Colonizing Love: Romeo and Juliet in Modem Indian
Disseminations
Harish Trivedi
Appropriating Shakespeare Freely: Parsi Theater’s First
Urdu Play Khurshid
Javed M alick
Translation and Performance of Shakespeare in Kannada
VlJAYA GUTTAL
Part II: Interpretation
Toward a Terrestrial Divine Comedy: A Study of The
Winter’s Tale and Shakuntalam
R. A. M alagi
England, the Indian Boy, and the Spice Trade in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
R. W. Desai
Shakespeare’s India
SUKANTA CHAUDHURI
Part III: Performance
“Folk Shakespeare”: The Performance of Shakespeare in
Traditional Indian Theater Forms
Poonam Trivedi
“A sea change into something rich and strange”: Ekbal
Ahmed’s Macbeth and Hamlet
Laxmi Chandrashekar
An Indian (Mid)summer: Bagro Basant Hai
Shormishtha Panja
CONTENTS
Re-Creating The Merchant of Venice on the Indian Stage:
A Director’s Note 195
Ananda L al
Shy lock’s Shoes: The Art of Localization 203
Dennis Bartholomeusz
Playing the Canon: Shakespeare and the Bengali Actress in
Nineteenth-Century Calcutta 216
Debjani Sengupta
That Sublime “Old Gentleman”: Shakespeare’s Plays in
Calcutta, 1775-1930 232
Sarottam a Majumdar
Shakespeare in Hindi Cinema 240
Rajiv a Verma
Notes QaCQoM^oss 260
Index 263
Foreword
T he SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF INDIA WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS ITS APPPRECIATION TO
the Department of English of the University of Delhi for its collaboration in the
holding of the conference “Shakespeare and India,” the Australian Research
Council for its support, and the editors and publishers of this volume for hav-
ing arrested drama’s ephemerality and given it “a local habitation and a name.”
R. W. Desai, President
The Shakespeare Society of India
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Acknowledgments
M ost of the essays in this collection have emerged out of the conference
“Shakespeare and India,” organized by the Shakespeare Society of India in
collaboration with the Department of English, University of Delhi, 5-7 February
1998. The conference received generous support from the “Shakespeare and
Asia” project of the Australian Research Council, initiated by the researchteam
of Ian Carruthers, John Gillies, and Dennis Bartholomeusz of La Trobe and
Monash Universities. The editors wish to thank all these institutions and people
without whose support the book would not have begun, and the contributors
for their patience and cooperation.
We are thankful to the following for permission to print the photos: The National
School of Drama, New Delhi, for the cover photo and nos. 2, 7, and 8; Rang
Sharada for photo 1; Jaya Lakshmi Films for photo 4; Ekbal Ahmed for photos
5 and 6; Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata for photo 9;
National Film Archive, Pune, for photo 10; and Gulzar for photo 11.