Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rita Banerjee is a research scholar affiliated to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. She was formerly Associate Professor of English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She specialized in early modern British drama and has published articles, book chapters, and a monograph in early modern literature and related areas. Her current research interests include travel narratives, early modern literature, historiography, 19th- and 20th -century Bengali literature and culture, women's writings, and Rabindranath Tagore. She has recently published India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives: Protestantism, Enlightenment, and Toleration and an edited collection, Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography.

Yilin Chen (PhD in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London) is Professor in the Department of English Language, Literature and Linguistics, and Director of the Global Foreign Language Education Program in Providence University (Taiwan). Her current research includes the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare, and teaching Shakespeare and English as the second language through modern technology. She is interested in integrating Human Intelligence (HI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote bilingual education. She is also in charge of bilingual teacher training for both in-service and pre-service K12 teachers.