Introduction: / Thea Buckley (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Sangeeta Datta (filmmaker, UK) and and Rosa García-Periago (University of Murcia, Spain) -- Part One: Histories. Chapter One: Poonam Trivedi (University of Delhi, India), 'The "woman's part": Recovering the Contribution of Women to the Circulation of Shakespeare in India' ; Chapter Two: Paromita Chavravarti (Jadavpur University, India), 'Framing Femininities: Desdemona and Indian Modernities' -- Part Two: Translations Chapter Three: Priyanka Basu (British Library, UK) and Arani Ilankuberan (British Library, UK), 'Indian Shakespeares in the British Library Collections: Translation, Indigeneity and Representation' ; Chapter Four: Thea Buckley (Queen's University Belfast, UK), 'Women Translating Shakespeare in South India: Hemanta Katha , or The Winter's Tale' -- Part Three: Representations. Chapter Five: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Jyotsna G. Singh (Michigan State University, USA), '"I dare do all that may become a man": Martial Desires and Women as Warriors in Veeram, a Film Adaptation of Macbeth' ; Chapter Six : Taarini Mookherjee (State University of New York, New Paltz, USA), '"You should be women": Bengali Femininity and the Supernatural in Adaptations of Macbeth' ; Chapter Seven: Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, India), 'Romeo and Juliet Meets Rural India: Sairat and the Representation of Women' ; Chapter Eight: Jennifer Thorup (Notre Dame University, USA), 'Dy(e)ing Hands: The Hennaed Female Agent in Vishal Bhardwaj's Tragedies' -- Part Four: Critics and Creatives. Chapter Nine: Rosa García-Periago (University of Murcia, Spain), 'Embattled Bodies: Women, Land and Contemporary Politics in Arshinagar, a Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet' ; Chapter Ten: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK), 'Where the Wild Things are: Shifting Identities in Noblemen, a Film Adaptation of The Merchant of Venice' ; Chapter Eleven: N.P. Ashley (St. Stephen's College, Delhi, India), 'Women Punctuating Shakespeare: Campus Theatrical Experiment, the Shakespeare Society and the Insider/Outsider Dialectic' ; Chapter Twelve: Bornila Chatterjee (filmmaker), Sangeeta Datta (filmmaker), Annette Leday (Annette Leday/Keli Company), Sreedevi Nair (NSS College for Women, India), Preti Taneja (University of Newcastle, UK), 'Adapting Shakespeare: Directors and Practitioners in Conversation' -- Appendix : Priyanka Basu (British Library, UK) and Arani Ilankuberan (British Library, UK), 'A Selection of Shakespeare Translations/Adaptations from the British Library North Indian Languages Collection' -- Index.