Indian Responses to Shakespeare

Poet, critic, translator, Goutam Ghosal, D.litt., is Professor of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. A leading interpreter of Sri Aurobindo’s literature, psychology, philosophy and sociological thoughts, he was the chief editor of The Visva-Bharati Quarterly from 2005 to 2007. His major books include The Rainbow Bridge: A Comparative Study of Tagore and Sri Aurobindo , Sri Aurobindo’s Prose Style , Sri Aurobindo and World Literature , Notes on Prayers and Meditations , Notes on the Renaissance, Indian Literature: Points of View and Magic Mirror and Other Poems . Ghosal has published more than two hundred papers and articles in various journals, especially on Sri Aurobindo and other Indian English poets. His other areas of interest are Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, Stephen Crane and nineteenth century British and American literature.