Recritiquing William Shakespeare
Contents: Preface. 1. Raktaksi: an example of a cultural adaptation of Hamlet/Basavaraj Naikar. 2. King Lear: text and the Indian context/Santosh Chakrabarti. 3. The bad influence of women in Hamlet\'s tragedy/Suresh Dhoke. 4. Predeterministic views on Shakespeares tragic Heroes: an analytical study in Indian perspective/R.K. Mishra. 5. The aesthetics of Shakespearean tragedy in King Lear and Macbeth/Binod Kumar Singh. 6. Masculinity and femininity in lady Macbeth/Ajay Kumar. 7. The renaissance concept of time and Shakespeare\'s Sonnets/Sharad Rajimwale. 8. Shakespeares Sonnet 20: the key of keys/R.S. Sharma. 9. Recritiquing Shakespeare\'s Sonnets/B.S. Nimavat. 10. Romance versus realism in the tempest/Vijay Kumar Sinha. 11. Jaques in as you like it a critical evaluation/Chandan Kumar Rakesh. 12. Marvel of dramatic force: a study in Shakespeare\'s King Henry the IVth, part I/B.P. Sinha. 13. Life and beauty in the plays of Shakespeare/Amar Nath Prasad. 14. Nayika Bhed in Shakespeare/Ratri Ray. 15. An idealist approach to philosophical truths in Shakespeare/Meenu Dubey. 16. Shakespeare criticism: an Indian perspective/R.A. Singh. 17. The penning problem of Shakespeare\'s works/Dilip Bhatt. 18. Shakespeares re invention of myths and archetypes: a select view/Chidananda Bhattacharya. 19. Imaging the self: father son relationships in the plays of Shakespeare/Soma Banerjee. Index.
Recritiquing William Shakespeare is a modest attempt for discussing critically so many aspects of the works of William Shakespeare the great playwright and poet of English literature. Almost all the prominent creative works of William Shakespeare have been evaluated and elucidated in the light of Indian aesthetics and modern concepts.
In Shakespeares works what matters most is a fine fusion of feeling and form. Legouis lays stress on two strands of Shakespeare\'s poetic achievement life and beauty which are merged together in a fine proportion. The realistic truths which Shakespeare has presented in various plays and poems are not bald and monotonous but they are richly charged with the poetic imagination and coloured with artistic integration.
The book I hope will be welcomed by both teachers and students and all other research scholars who want to be acquainted with the various new things about Shakespeare. (jacket)
