In the twelfth issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook, aSpecial
Section in eight essays explores India's intense engagementwith Shakespeare, the
longest of any country outside the Westernworld. Treating cinema, theater and
education in particular,contributors examine how Shakespearean traffic has been
routedthrough many languages and cultural contexts across thesubcontinent, from
the early nineteenth to the early twentiethcentury. Introducing a new Yearbook
feature, this volume alsopresents two review essays; the essay topics are 'New
BiographyStudies, Queer Turns in Theory, and Shakespearean Utility,' and'Textual
Studies, Performance Criticism, and Digital Humanities'.The special section is
further supplemented by two additionalessays, on Hamlet and Shylock
respectively. Among the contributorsare Shakespearean scholars from India,
Poland, the UK,