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Tragic Inheritance: Shakespeare's Heroes and the Postcolonial Crisis in Indian Culture and Society

Author(s) G. Yadagiri
Country India
Abstract This paper looks at multiple ways in which Shakespeare's tragic heroes Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet have been recreated in India to express the psychological and social crisis of post-colonial identity. Under colonial rule, the Shakespearean tragedies were first imposed as symbols of language and culture, and creatively appropriated by Indian writers, translators, and filmmakers who saw a metaphor for the fissures of a society divided between the colonial heritage and indigenous traditions in the tragedy of the protagonists' decline. Based on postcolonial theory (Bhabha, 1994); the rich scholarship on Indian Shakespeare (Narasimhaiah, 1964; Naikar, 2001; Trivedi & Bartholomeusz, 2005; Panja & Saraf, 2021), the paper charts this evolution from the Parsi theatre adaptations in the 19th century to the Mumbai underworld in Maqbool (2003), rural Uttar Pradesh in Omkara (2006), and conflict-ridden Kashmir in Haider (2014) by the director Vishal Bhardwaj. The tragic inheritance is not a simple aesthetic plunder; it is a form of postcolonial self-examination, in which the aspirations of self-interest, envy, and revenge are caught up with caste, communal, and subcontinental fears. The paper concludes that Shakespeare's tragic form persists in India less as a colonial relic than as a flexible grammar for narrating unresolved postcolonial crisis.
Keywords Shakespeare, postcolonialism, tragic hero, Indian cinema, cultural hybridity, Vishal Bhardwaj, colonial legacy.
Published In Volume 12, Issue 2, July-December 2021
Published On 2021-12-04
DOI https://doi.org/10.71097/IJAIDR.v12.i2.2097
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