This volume critically analyses and theorises Asian interventions in the expanding phenomenon of Global Shakespeare,

Poonam Trivedi is currently the vice-chair of the Asian Shakespeare Association and has taught English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, India. She received her doctorate from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK, and was the secretary of the Shakespeare Society of India from 1993 to 1999.

Paromita Chakravarti is Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University, India, and has been Director, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. She completed her doctoral studies on early modern discourses of madness from the University of Oxford, UK.

Ted Motohashi is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Tokyo University of Economics, Japan. He received his DPhil in literature from the University of York, UK, in 1995. He is a leading translator into Japanese of the works by Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Rey Chow, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy, among others.

Introduction : Poonam Trivedi, Paromita Chakravarti and Ted Motohashi

Part 1: The Asian 'Global' and its Discontents

1. Poonam Trivedi

"Making Meaning between the Local and the Global: Performing Shakespeare in India Today"

2. Ted Motohashi

"How could we present a 'non-localized' Shakespeare in Asia?: Colonialism and Atlantic Slave-Trade in Yamanote-Jijosha's The Tempest"

3. Michael Ingham

" 'We will perform in measure, time and place': Synchronicity, Signification and Cultural Mobility in Tang Shu Wing Theatre Studio's Cantonese Language Macbeth"

4. Mariko Anzai

"From Cultural Mobility to Cultural Misunderstanding: Japanese Style of Love in Akio Miyazawa's adaptation in the Cardenio Project, Motorcycle Don Quixote"

5. Andronicus Aden

"Something Rotten in the State of Dankot: Hamlet and the Kingdom of Nepal"

Part 2: The Asian Cinematic and Digital Sphere: Democratising the 'Global'

6. Paromita Chakravarti

"Globalising the City: Kolkata Films and the Millennial Bard"

7. Lingui Yang

"Shakespeare in Chinese Media and Trans-sphere"

8. Yukari Yoshihara

"Bardolators and Bardoclasts: Shakespeare in Manga/Anime and Cosplay"

9. Thomas Kullman

"Shakespeare on the Internet: Global and South Asian Appropriations"

10. Judy Celine Ick

"The Performance Archive and the Digital Construction of Asian Shakespeare"

Part 3: Historicising the Asian Global: Shakespeare as World Poet

11. Supriya Chaudhuri

"Global Shakespeare and the Question of a World Literature"

12. Swati Ganguly

"Beyond Bardolatry: Rabindranath Tagore's Critique of Shakespeare's The Tempest"

Afterword: Michael Dobson "All the World's His Stage, 2016"

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index