Sujata Iyengar (born 1970) is a British-Indian professor and scholar of

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, and Shakespeare adaptations. She received her PhD from

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and is a professor at the

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. Iyengar is the author of books including ''Shades of Difference'', ''Shakespeare's Medical Language'', and ''Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory''. She is co-founder and co-editor of the academic journal ''Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation''.

Bibliography

* ''Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color and Race in Early Modern England'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) * ''Shakespeare's Medical Language'' (Bloomsbury/Arden, 2011) * ''Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body'' (Routledge, 2015) * ''Shakespeare and Global Appropriation'' (Routledge, 2020) * ''Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory'' (Bloomsbury/Arden, 2023)

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