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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 This page is intentionally left blank. INDIA’S SHAKESPEARE Translation, Interpretation, and Performance Edited by Poonam Trivedi and Dennis Bartholomeusz Copyright © 2005 Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd. Licensees of Pearson Education in South Asia No part of this eBook may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the publisher’s prior written consent. This eBook may or may not include all assets that were part of the print version. The publisher reserves the right to remove any material present in this eBook at any time. ISBN 9788177581317 eISBN 9788131799598 Head Office: A-8(A), Sector 62, Knowledge Boulevard, 7th Floor, NOIDA 201 309, India Registered Office: 11 Local Shopping Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India 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 This page is intentionally left: blank. 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.
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