Kolkata’s printing houses have brought Shakespeare to Bengali readers in a variety of formats, adapting Shakespeare’s plays into versions catered to children and adults.
Color covers
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Cleopatra in a cover illustration for a collection of Shakespeare’s tragedies translated into Bengali as short stories for young adults, with sketches and illustrations. The title transliterates the English words ‘Tragedy [sic] of Shakespeare’.
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A revisioning of the cauldron scene from Macbeth: cover illustration by Ranjan Datta for a collection of Shakespeare’s plays translated into Bengali as short stories for young adults, with sketches and illustrations. The title transliterates the English words ‘Dramas of Shakespeare’.
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Cleopatra and a dueling Hamlet and Laertes in two presumably separate scenes: cover illustration for a book of abridged Bengali prose retellings of Shakespeare’s works, with sketches and illustrations, for young readers.
Bengali Translations
Hamlet, translated by Manomohana Rāya
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The Merchant of Venice, translated by Manomohana Rāya
Cymbeline, translated by Satyendranātha Ṭhākura
Black and White Illustrations
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Opening illustration for Venus and Adonis from Shakespeare rachana samagra (Shakespeare’s Collected Works, 1994), a collection of Bengali prose retellings of Shakespeare by Subodh Chakrabarti.
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Hamlet and Gertrude, with the dead Polonius. Illustration from Manomohan Raya’s Bengali translation of Hamleṭ, denmarker yubaraj (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark).
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Ophelia. Illustration from Manomohan Raya’s Bengali translation of Hamleṭ, denmarker yubaraj (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark).
