Bollywood Shakespeares / edited by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia.

Contents: Introduction: Shakespeare and Bollywood: the difference a world makes / Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia -- Parsi Shakespeare: the precursor to "Bollywood Shakespeare" / Vikram Singh Thakur -- Bollywood battles the Bard: the evolving relationship between film and theater in Shakespeare Wallah / Parmita Kapadia -- The ambiguities of Bollywood conventions and the reading of transnationalism in Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool / Rosa María García Periago -- No country for young women: empowering Emilia in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara / Mike Heidenberg -- The global as local/Othello as Omkara / Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani -- -- Interrogating "Bollywood Shakespeare": reading Rituporno Ghosh's The Last Lear / Paromita Chakravarti -- The sounds of India in Supple's Twelfth Night / Kendra Preston Leonard -- Comedies of errors: Shakespeare, Indian Cinema, and the poetics of mistaken identity / Richard Allen -- Afterword: Bollywood's Shakespeare: cultural dialogues through world cinema and theater / Poonam Trevedi., Bollywood Shakespeares uses the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. The essays examine how Shakespeare has been reproduced and reimagined in a global context through the use of Bollywood imagery, conventions, and styles. This portrayal of Shakespeare is called "crosshatched Shakespeare" - where Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a new, vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture.