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The reception of Shakespeare in India has seen excellent scholarship by Ranji Shahani, Annaiah Gowda, Narasimhaiah and lately Jyotsna Singh, Poonam Trivedi, Harish Trivedi and many more. There have been great adaptations and greater critiicism on the phenomenon stays. But someone interested in a detailed trajectory of the Bard´s assimilation, adaptation and appropriation in India since colonial times, can find it here in this volume. The author has tried to be comprehensive and exact. The language is such that even those who do not belong to the academia, can profit from the reading.

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Syed Zamanat Abbas was educated at University of Lucknow, India. He earned a Doctorate in English Literature in 2010 from the same university. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English in Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Earlier he taught at the reputed Lucknow Christian College, University of Lucknow, India.

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