ABSTRACT
Certainly, the year that marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and the second biennial conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association from which the essays that make up this book are drawn, was a notable one for visible shifts in the political and Bardolatrous world orders alike. In 2016, then, the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, a town regarded a century earlier as the spiritual home of the British Empire Shakespeare Society, an unquestioned centre of the imperial literary culture, entered into equal partnerships with two Asian institutions. Delhi was of course in every way memorable, and full of signs of the times, outside the conference as well as within it. That focus, moreover, has remained a prominent aspect of Shakespeare studies worldwide over the three years that have passed since the Delhi conference.
