Shakespeare in Singapore provides the first detailed and sustained study of the role of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education, and culture.

Philip Smith is professor of English and associate chair at Savannah College of Art and Design, Hong Kong. He has served as fight choreographer for the Shakespeare in Paradise Festival and was co-founder, co-director, and teacher at the Shakespeare Behind Bars programme at Nassau's Department of Corrections Facility. He has written on Shakespeare and on Singaporean literature for numerous journals, as well as authoring Reading Art Spiegelman (2015).

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: A Taste of Home - 1819 to 1900 Part 2: 'A great and perceptive love' - 1900 to 1942 Part 3: Shakespeare in the Final Days of British Rule - 1942 to 1963 Part 4: Playing Balthazar - 1963 to 1980 Part 5: 'Not pukka' - 1980 to 1990 Part 6: 'If I profane with my unworthiest hand' - 1990 to 2000 Part 7: 'To shake the head, relent, and sigh' - 2001 to 2019 ...and exits Bibliography Index