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Collected Plays Volume 1

Autor Girish Karnad
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 ian 2021
Th e troubled reign of a fourteenth-century sultan of Delhi helps dramatizethe crisis of secular nationhood in post-Independence India. A twelft hcenturyfolktale about 'transposed heads' off ers a path-breaking model fora quintessentially 'Indian' theatre in postcolonial times. The folktale abouta woman with a snake lover explores gender relations within marriage.Individual human sexuality meets the historical debate on violence in Indianculture. The plays in this volume span roughly the fi rst half of the career ofGirish Karnad, one of India's pre-eminent playwrights.Th e three-volume set of Karnad's Collected Plays brings together Englishversions of his important works. Each volume contains an extensiveintroduction by theatre scholar Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, Professorof English and Interdisciplinary Th eatre Studies, University of Wisconsin,Madison. Th e introductions trace the literary and theatrical evolution ofKarnad's work over six decades and position it in the larger context ofmodern Indian drama. In addition, they comment on Karnad's place as authorand translator in a multilingual performance culture and the relation of hisplaywriting to his work in the popular media.Each of these volumes serves as a collector's item, making Karnad's worksaccessible to theatre lovers worldwide.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190127695
ISBN-10: 0190127694
Pagini: 356
Dimensiuni: 141 x 217 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: OUP INDIA
Colecția OUP India
Locul publicării:Delhi, India

Notă biografică

Girish Karnad, a playwright, film-maker, and actor, writes in Kannada and has translated his plays into English. TheInternational Theatre Centre of UNESCO, Paris, has declared him the World Theatre Ambassador of the InternationalTheater Institute, Paris. He has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan and was also conferred the prestigious Jnanpithand Sahitya Akademi awards. He provided the voice of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India, in the audiobook ofKalam's autobiography by Charkha Audiobooks Wings of Fire.