Introduction: Shakespeare and Bollywood: the Difference a World Makes / by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia -- Bollywood's Debt to the Theater: Aesthetic and Cultural Multivalency. Parsi Shakespeare: The Precursor to "Bollywood Shakespeare" / by Vikram Singh Thakur -- Bollywood Battles the Bard: The Evolving Relationship Between Film and Theater in Shakespeare Wallah / by Parmita Kapadia -- Shakespeare's Local Face: Using Shakespeare to Rearticulate Indian Identities. The Ambiguities of Bollywood Conventions and the Reading of Transnationalism in Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool / by Rosa María García Periago -- No Country For Young Women: Empowering Emilia in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara / by Mike Heidenberg -- The Global as Local/Othello as Omkara / Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani -- Bollywood's Cultural Capital: Bollywood Sells Shakespeare -- Interrogating "Bollywood Shakespeare": Reading Rituporno Ghosh's The Last Lear / by Paromita Chakravarti -- The Sounds of India in Supple's Twelfth Night / by Kendra Preston Leonard -- Comedies of Errors: Shakespeare, Indian Cinema, and The Poetics of Mistaken Identity / by Richard Allen -- Afterword: Bollywood's Shakespeare: Cultural Dialogues through World Cinema and Theater / by Poonam Trevedi