Published in: "Yearly Shakespeare" (ISSN 0976-9536) Volume No.: 14 Pages: 70-74 Year of Publication: 2016 Published by: Sri Aurobindo Study Centre, Santiniketan Edited by: Prof. Goutam Ghoshal, Professor, Deptt. of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan Shakespeare in Bangla Natya : The Tempest of ‘Dhaka Theatre’ Bivash Bishnu Chowdhury Written at a time when Britain had barely begun to embark on its colonial age, “The Tempest” ends with the exiled Duke Prospero choosing to end his rule over the natives of some distant isle and offer them their freedom. It is this strikingly modern message of power-sharing and toleration that the Dhaka Theatre’s production of the play brings home to Shakespeare’s Globe, the reconstruction of the famous open air theatre in London where the play was first performed 401 years ago (John Farndon). In the time of British rule in India and later, we have seen that “Shakespeare is the most translated or adapted foreign playwright i...
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