Bill Shakespeare's Laundry Bills to the Ban on Ivanhoe: English Studies in Pakistan

Abstract

When the present writer began his university teaching career in 1971, Departments of English in Pakistan were much the same as they had been in the 1950s and 1960s. Not much had changed since Independence, except that there were fewer British or American individuals on the Faculty. We had become, it was commonly said, more English than the English, implying the redundancy of such personnel and of any earnest preaching to the converted.