The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama
The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama

Author: Robert E. Goodwin

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9788120815896

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The `Playworld of Sanskrit Drama` is the `poetic universe` (kavyasam) posited by Anandavardhana and other poeticians. Each of the seven plays studied here - works of Bhasa, Kalidasa, Sudraka, and Visakhadatta- provides us with a different angle of approach to the crucial issues of kavya, and their fundamental ambivalence, which cannot be understood or even delineated by the conventional approach to Indian aesthetics.

Theater of Memory
Theater of Memory

Author: Kālidāsa

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780231058391

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This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: "Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection," "Urvasi Won by Valor," and "Malavika and Agnimitra."

The Plays of Kālidāsa
The Plays of Kālidāsa

Author: Kālidāsa

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9788120816817

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In this fine volume Miller and her co-translators David Gitomer and Edwin Gerow have succeeded not only in evoking for us the contexts and spirit of Kalidasa`s dramatic art but also in providing Indologists and the general public with excellent, contemporary translations of all three plays of the eminent sanskrit poet.........the editor and co-translators deserve congratulations and gratitude for their achievement in providing us with Kalidasa translations that are enjoyable as well as accurate and convey in great measure the power and beauty of the works in the original.

Drama and Ritual of Early Hinduism
Drama and Ritual of Early Hinduism

Author: Natalia Lidova

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9788120812345

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Drama and Ritual of Early Hinduism sets out to explore the foundations of theatre in ritual practice. In a careful, systematic way Lidova lays out a process by which the classical Sanskrit theatre may have come into existence. Scholars have wrestled with this question for centuries. Because of this work we have a better understanding of the process. The work is bound to encourage further speculation about this topic in the years to come.

Performance Making and the Archive
Performance Making and the Archive

Author: Ashutosh Potdar

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1000785777

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This book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance’s relationship to the archive. The contributions in the volume examine how the changing nature of performance practices has made it imperative to understand how the archive and archival practices could add to the performance work. They explore a variety of themes, including artistic engagement with the archive in both conceptual and material terms; physical, virtual and digital forms; publicly and privately collected; oral, written and digital ways; or organized and unorganized collections. Finally, the volume examines how archives are modelled on existing structure and the ways in which they can be brought into discourses and practices of performance making through engagement and contestation. A novel approach to performance theory, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of performance studies, media and culture studies, studies of technology and art as also literature and literary criticism.

An Annotated Bibliography of the Alaṃkāraśāstra
An Annotated Bibliography of the Alaṃkāraśāstra

Author: Timothy Cahill

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9004491295

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This volume contains the most comprehensive collection of scholarly sources on Indian poetics and aesthetics (the Alaṃkāraśāstra ever published in ancient India. Entries are divided into three sections and a detailed index is provided. Reference to primary sources from several languages range from about the 5th to the 19th centuries. Secondary sources in two dozen languages are divided into two sections, viz., books and articles. These begin in the mid-19th century and continue to the present. Annotations are usually brief and descriptive.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1136119000

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An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.