List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsSeries Editor's PrefaceIntroduction: 'An Inventory of Traces'PART I - SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY COLONIAL HISTORYChapter One: Historical Contexts 1: Shakespeare and the Colonial Imaginary Colonial Encounters Narratives of Travel, Trade, and 'Discoveries' Race, Religion, Identity Chapter Two: Historical Contexts 2: Shakespeare's World and Productions of Difference Immigrants, 'Others', and Foreign Commodities in Early Modern London Global Imaginings on the London Stage PART II - SHAKESPEARE, DECOLONIZATION, POSTCOLONIAL THEORYChapter Three: Past and Present: Shakespeare-Postcoloniality Legacies of Decolonization: Aimé Césaire, George Lamming, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Edward Said's Orientalism and the Paradigm Shift in Shakespeare Studies Chapter Four: Intersectionalities: Postcoloniality and Difference Shakespeare-Postcoloniality, Johannesburg, 1996 Postcoloniality and Difference : King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and CymbelinePART III - SHAKESPEARE, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND RECEPTION HISTORIES: PERFORMANCE AND FILMChapter Five: Global, Intercultural Shakespeares Historical Overview: The Poetics and Politics of Appropriation and Intercultural Encounters Arab Shakespeares Chapter Six: Boundary-Crossings on the British Shakespearean Stage Multiracial Shakespeares in Britain Imagining 'India' on the Stage Tim Supple, Dash Arts, A Midsummer Night's Dream (2007) Emma Rice, The Globe, A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016) Iqbal Khan, RSC, Much Ado About Nothing (2012) Chapter Seven: Shakespeare in Postcolonial Cinema: A Meditation on Haider/Hamlet: Reconstituting the Cultural Ruins of Kashmir NotesReferencesIndex.