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Shakespeare in India is a legacy of colonialism. His plays have been performed since the late 18th century, initially for the entertainment of the European traders. With the teaching of English language and literature from the early 19th century, and translations of the plays and performances in the Indian languages beginning from 1852, a long standing and multipronged interaction with Shakespeare has developed. The reception of Shakespeare over this period, which has also been one of tumultuous social and political change, has undergone divergent and varied phases, and no single figure of thought or discourse about the bard and his plays can be isolated (cf. Trivedi 2002).
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Trivedi, P. (2014). India. In: Marx, P.W. (eds) Hamlet-Handbuch. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-00516-8_63
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