Shakespeare's legacy

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This volume offers contributions from distinguished literary scholars who demonstrate that post-colonial encounters with Shakespeare reflect almost every facet of response oscillating between the poles of a rich or fatal legacy. While book-length studies in the field so far have preferred to concentrate on some individual countries, Shakespeare’s Legacy intends to cover the various post-colonial areas with respect to their specific appropriation of Shakespeare over the last thirty years or so. The advantage of the critical term , appropriation‘ is the very fact that it gathers diverse, even sometimes opposing strategies at the same time as it is able to accommodate a variety of corresponding methodologies with which the contributors to the current volume are concerned. And finally, the term , appropriation‘ also helps to secure an idea of agency that this book is likely to identify as one of the major prerequisites for inviting Shakespeare to the site of a post-colonial encounter.