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Shakespeare

  • How can Shakespeare’s ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ be a love poem in blazing hot India?

    How can Shakespeare’s ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ be a love poem in blazing hot India?

    Sumana Roy
    · May 21, 2017 · 12:30 pm
  • Watch: Writer Margaret Atwood explains how Shakespeare could help prisoners

    Watch: Writer Margaret Atwood explains how Shakespeare could help prisoners

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 06, 2016 · 06:00 pm
  • 'And every one of them words rang true': How a teacher in Mumbai weaves Bob Dylan into her classes

    'And every one of them words rang true': How a teacher in Mumbai weaves Bob Dylan into her classes

    Bubla Basu
    · Oct 16, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • Shakespeare in India: How Indians saw and read the Bard a hundred years back

    Shakespeare in India: How Indians saw and read the Bard a hundred years back

    Hedley Sutton Karen Waddell
    · Sep 15, 2016 · 08:30 pm
  • How Shakespeare helped shape Germaine Greer’s feminist masterpiece

    How Shakespeare helped shape Germaine Greer’s feminist masterpiece

    Rachel Buchanan, The Conversation
    · May 30, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • Agha Hashra Kashmiri, the Indian playwright who gave the tragic King Lear a happy ending

    Agha Hashra Kashmiri, the Indian playwright who gave the tragic King Lear a happy ending

    Mrinal Pande
    · Apr 26, 2016 · 05:30 pm
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