Bastardizing the bard: Appropriations of Shakespeare's plays in postcolonial India
Shakespeare's dramatic work occupies a strange and double-edged position in the Indian literary consciousness. On the one hand, it is a colonial text that the British imported to India as a tool to illustrate proper 'moral' behavior to their Indian subjects. On the other hand, it has...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1997
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9737547 |