General editor's preface, Contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: Shakespeare and the post-colonial question, Part 1, 2. 'This Tunis, sir, was Carthage': Contesting colonialism in The Tempest, 3. 'A most wily bird': Leo Africanus, Othello and the trafficking in difference, 4. 'These bastard signs of fair': Literary whiteness in Shakespeare's sonnets, 5. Tis not the fashion to confess': 'Shakespeare-Postcoloniality- Johannesburg, 1996', 6. Nation and place in Shakespeare: The case of Jerusalem as a national desire in early modern English drama, 7. Bryn Glas, Part 2, 8.

'Local-manufacture made-in-India Othello fellows': Issues of race, hybridity and location in post-colonial Shakespeares, 9. Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre, 10. Possessing the book and peopling the text, 11. Shakespeare and Hanekom, King Lear and land: A South Mrican perspective, 12. From the colonial to the post-colonial: Shakespeare and education in Africa, 13. Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and the colonial encounter: The case of Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet, 14. Shakespeare and theory, References, Index.