The Bard in Bollywood: Shakespearean Adaptation in Post-Independence Hindi Cinema DEFINING THE TERM “BARD”: • In his own lifetime, Shakespeare was described as an “upstart crow.” “The Bard of Avon” was not a term he would have known. • “Bardolatry” coined by Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw in 1901, to describe the excessive adulation of Shakespeare. From “Bard of Avon” and the Greek “latria” or “worship.” • “Consider now if they asked us. Will you give up your Indian Empire or your Shakespeare, you English.…Should not we be forced to answer: Indian Empire or no Indian Empire; we cannot do without our Shakespeare. Indian Empire will go, at any rate some day; but this Shakespeare does not go, he lasts forever with us; we cannot give up our Shakespeare”— Thomas Carlyle 1840s.
The Bard in Bollywood: Shakespearean Adaptation in Post-Independence Hindi Cinema
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The Bard in Bollywood:Shakespearean Adaptation in Post-Independence Hindi Cinema
DEFINING THE TERM “BARD”:
• In his own lifetime, Shakespeare was described as an “upstart crow.” “The Bard of Avon” was not a term he would have known.
• “Bardolatry” coined by Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw in 1901, to describe the excessive adulation of Shakespeare. From “Bard of Avon” and the Greek “latria” or “worship.”
• “Consider now if they asked us. Will you give up your Indian Empire or your Shakespeare, you English.…Should not we be forced to answer: Indian Empire or no Indian Empire; we cannot do without our Shakespeare. Indian Empire will go, at any rate some day; but this Shakespeare does not go, he lasts forever with us; we cannot give up our Shakespeare”—Thomas Carlyle 1840s.
The Bard in Bollywood:Shakespearean Adaptation in Post-Independence Hindi Cinema
DEFINING THE TERM “BOLLYWOOD”:
• “A name for the Indian popular film industry, based in Bombay. Origin 1970s. Blend of Bombay and Hollywood.”—OED 2005
• “Bollywood is not just a cinema but a more diffuse cultural conglomeration involving a range of distribution and consumption activities from websites to music cassettes, from cable to radio”—Ashish Rajyadhaksha 2005.
• A kind of “Epico-Mythico-Tragico-Comico-Super-Sexy-High-Masala-Art”—Salman Rushdie 1995.
The Bard in Bollywood:Shakespearean Adaptation in Post-Independence Hindi Cinema
Dir. James Ivory, 1965
THE POST- INDEPENDENCE PHASE
Dir. Gulzar, 1982
THE NATIONALIST PHASE
Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2005
THE LOCAL-AS-GLOBAL PHASE
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