First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ania Loomba is the author of Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1989) and Colonialism/Post-Colonialism (1998). She is Associate Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Martin Orkin is the author of Shakespeare Against Apartheid (1987) and Drama and the South African State (1991). He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at the University of Haifa, Israel.

General editor's preface, Contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: Shakespeare and the post-colonial question, Part 1, 2. 'This Tunis, sir, was Carthage': Contesting colonialism in The Tempest, 3. 'A most wily bird': Leo Africanus, Othello and the trafficking in difference, 4. 'These bastard signs of fair': Literary whiteness in Shakespeare's sonnets, 5. Tis not the fashion to confess': 'Shakespeare-Postcoloniality- Johannesburg, 1996', 6. Nation and place in Shakespeare: The case of Jerusalem as a national desire in early modern English drama, 7. Bryn Glas, Part 2, 8. 'Local-manufacture made-in-India Othello fellows': Issues of race, hybridity and location in post-colonial Shakespeares, 9. Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre, 10. Possessing the book and peopling the text, 11. Shakespeare and Hanekom, King Lear and land: A South Mrican perspective, 12. From the colonial to the post-colonial: Shakespeare and education in Africa, 13. Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and the colonial encounter: The case of Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet, 14. Shakespeare and theory, References, Index