Shakespeare in Pakistan: Appropriating the Bard in Theatres, Cinema and Academia [Hardcover]

Introduction

Chapter 1: Shakespeare's Reception and Appropriation in Pre-Partition of Pakistan?

Chapter 2: Shakespeare and Pakistan after Independence

Chapter 3: Experimentation and Revival of Pakistani Modern Theatre

Chapter 4: Sang-e-Mah (2022) Pakistani Recontextualizations of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)

Chapter 5: Burns Road's Culinary Foodway: A Heterotopic Ode to Shakespeare's Romeo and???? Juliet in??? Pakistan's Television Serial

Chapter 6: Cinematic Appropriation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (1603): A Gnoseological Exploration of Pakistani Muslim Identity

Chapter 7: Rewriting Shakespeare: Macbeth as Raees in Urdu Tradaptation

Chapter 8: Shakespeare in Academia: Institutionalizing Colonial Agendas in Pakistan

Chapter 9: Rethinking Shakespeare in Pakistani Academia: Beyond Colonial Pedagogies/ Shakespeare in Pakistan: From Colonial Legacy to Transformative Education

Shakespeare in Pakistan?provides an extensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, focusing on how it addresses creative, indigenous, cultural, and religious identity expressions.?

Zakia Resshid Ehsen's comprehensive investigation of how Shakespeare has been staged, adapted, and taught in Pakistan offers a fascinating new angle on the topic of global Shakespeares

--Lisa Hopkins, Professor Emerita of English, Sheffield Hallam University

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Shakespeare in Pakistan is an erudite study of appropriations as an inversion tool to amplify Pakistani Muslim experiences in theatre, cinema, and academia in the pre-partition and post-independence eras. Zakia Resshid Ehsen argues compellingly that Pakistani appropriations revive the Urdu language, redefine Muslim identities,lcG