Mendes, Ana Cristina2022-02-152022-02-152022Mendes, AC. 2022. “The Accentual Dialogized Heteroglossia of Shakespeare in India: Utpal Dutt’s Legacy in Shakespeare Wallah and The Last Lear”. Text and Performance Quarterly. 41: 4. 1–17.1046-2937http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51299This article focuses on a key figure of Shakespearean performance in pre- and post-independence India: the Bengali stage and film actor, director, playwright, and theater activist Utpal Dutt (1929–1993). I trace Dutt’s impact from his tours in the aftermath of independence with the Shakespeareana Company and his re-playing of Shakespeare in the Bengali Jatra tradition, through Rituparno Ghosh’s 2007 The Last Lear. This focus on Dutt’s influence is set against the backdrop of the politics of performing-adapting Shakespeare in Indian English accents, considering the accentual dialogized heteroglossia of Shakespearean performance in India after independence from British rule.engShakespeare, WilliamPostcolonial studiesDutt, UtpalPolitical theatreAdaptation studiesIndiajournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2022.2038794