The cultural capital of Shakespeare's Hamlet in Haider

• Main Author: Abigail Shantini K.
• Other Authors: Wong Yeang Chui
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154699
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This project explores the concept of cultural capital in relation to Haider, a Hindi film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. It attempts to understand and exhibit Hamlet's symbolic resonance and show how adaptations of Hamlet add to the source text, bringing previously underemphasized par...