This is a collection on the diverse aspects of the interaction between Shakespeare and India, a process embedded in the contradictions of colonialism. The essays deal with how the plays were taught, translated, and adapted, as well as the literary, social, and political implications of this absorption into the cultural fabric of India.

Poonam Trivedi is a reader in English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi. Now retired, Dennis Bartholomeusz was reader in English literature at Monash University in Melbourne.