The Shattered Thigh and Other Plays
Author | : Bhāsa |
Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Sanskrit drama |
ISBN | : 9780143104308 |
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Author | : Bhāsa |
Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Sanskrit drama |
ISBN | : 9780143104308 |
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Author | : Harṣa |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0814740669 |
"Two plays that break the rules: both show the hero dying on stage, an inauspicious scenario forbidden in Sanskrit dramaturgy. From widely different ideological and social backgrounds, each evokes intense emotion in an exploration of love and heroism, conflict and peace, idealism and pragmatic reconciliation. Each portrays the reconciliation of hate and retaliation in love and mercy." "King Harsha's play, composed in the seventh century, re-examines the Buddhist tale of a magician prince who makes the ultimate sacrifice to save a hostage snake (naga)." "Attributed to Bhasa, the illustrious predecessor to Kali-dasa, The Shattered Thighs transforms a crucial episode of the Maha-bharata war. As he dies from a foul blow to the legs delivered in his duel with Bhima, Duryodhana's infamous character is here inverted, where he is depicted as a noble and gracious exemplar amidst the wreckage of the fearsome battle scene. An ignoble man dies a hero's death." --Book Jacket.
Author | : |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1479802867 |
Two tragic plays that break the rules: both show the hero dying on stage, a scenario forbidden in Sanskrit dramaturgy. King Harsha's play, composed in the seventh century, re-examines the Buddhist tale of a magician prince who makes the ultimate sacrifice to save a hostage snake (naga). The Shattered Thighs, attributed to Bhasa, the illustrious predecessor to ancient Kali·dasa, transforms a crucial episode of the Maha·bhárata war. As he dies from a foul blow to the legs delivered in his duel with Bhima, Duryódhana's character is inverted, depicted as a noble and gracious exemplar amidst the wreckage of the fearsome battle scene.
Author | : Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 158729642X |
Theatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.
Author | : Pennsylvania |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1782 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Legislative journals |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : South Asia |
ISBN | : |
Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.
Author | : Pennsylvania |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1672 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Legislative journals |
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