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The accentual dialogized heteroglossia of Shakespeare in India: Utpal Dutt's legacy in Shakespeare Wallah and The Last Lear.
- Source :
- Text & Performance Quarterly; Jul-Oct2021, Vol. 41 Issue 3/4, p300-316, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This article focuses on a key figure of Shakespearean performance in pre- and post-independence India: the Bengali stage and film actor, director, playwright, and theater activist Utpal Dutt (1929–1993). I trace Dutt's impact from his tours in the aftermath of independence with the Shakespeareana Company and his re-playing of Shakespeare in the Bengali Jatra tradition, through Rituparno Ghosh's 2007 The Last Lear. This focus on Dutt's influence is set against the backdrop of the politics of performing-adapting Shakespeare in Indian English accents, considering the accentual dialogized heteroglossia of Shakespearean performance in India after independence from British rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BENGALI (South Asian people)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10462937
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Text & Performance Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155832067
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2022.2038794