Afterword: Reflections from Afar, with Hope for our Collective Future
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Afterword Reflections from Afar with Hope for our Collective Future.pdf
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Published version
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Author(s)
Henderson, Diana E
Date Issued
October 2, 2025
Journal
Shakespeare
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Citation
Henderson, D. E. (2025). Afterword: Reflections from Afar, with Hope for our Collective Future. Shakespeare, 21(4), 924–930.
Version
Final published version
Abstract
Appearing in the wake of a decade of rapid growth in Indian screen Shakespeare as an academic subspeciality, ‘Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema’ reveals how cross-cultural comparison and attention to popular reception can profitably modify inherited critical assumptions for all Shakespeare’s readership. Taking ‘romance’ as a key term, this afterword considers the possibilities and potential problems of recasting its dominant meaning as thematic, focusing on modern love, rather than as a dramatic subgenre. In a time of increasing political censorship and existential threats to gender studies, greater engagement and exchange between those in other areas of Shakespeare studies with this rich cinematic corpus and its aligned subfield of cross-disciplinary criticism provides reasons for hope and renewed community.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2025.2573377
