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Still from Riz Ahmed's 2025 film Hamlet

Essay | Defanging and Radicalising Hamlet by Ira Bhattacharjee

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‘Postcolonial reinterpretations do not passively inherit the political meanings embedded in Shakespeare’s text but actively produce, constrain and radicalise them according to the political realities they choose to confront – or avoid.’

Ira Bhattacharjee on Aneil Karia’s and Riz Ahmed’s Hamlet.

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