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"This collection of essays examines the diverse aspects of the more than two hundred years of interaction between Shakespeare and India, a relationship (the longest and most widespread outside of Europe) which is embedded in the contradictions of colonialism - a matrix of simult…
The Oxford companion to Indian theatre
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The five essays in this book reflect many years of the author's sustained academic engagement with dramatic forms and traditions. The opening essay traces the historical trajectory of modern drama in Europe from its bourgeois period through the period of the liberal dissent to t…
Refuting the assumption that the West is everywhere, this book draws on the emergent cultures of secular struggle in contemporary India to engage with the volatile global issues of cultural tourism.
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WOMEN AND INDIAN SHAKESPEARES
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"This essay collection radically reimagines the field of Indian Shakespeares by putting women at the centre. It explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India from the 18th century to the present day. It interweaves history, genre…
Even from the early Sanskrit tradition, theatre has been used in India to address social issues. Folk theatre publicly admonished evil-doers in society, and in the 19th century it became an important medium for raising popular consciousness against British rule. As the Independe…
