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Routledge
258 Pages
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Routledge
260 Pages
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Routledge
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This is Volume V out of eleven that form a collection on India, its History, Economy and Society. First published in 1930, this book looks at the origin and development of Bengali Drama and contains matter for historians, as well as direct criticism of what the author considers to be genuinely dramatic in the literature of Bengal, past or present.
Part 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 CHAPTER I THE RELATION OF THE Y?TR? TO THE ANCIENT INDIAN DRAMA; Chapter 2 CHAPTER II THE ORIGIN OF THE Y?TR?; Chapter 3 CHAPTER III THE Y?TR? AND THE EARLY EUROPEAN DRAMA; Chapter 4 CHAPTER IV THE Y?TR? AS ACTED; Chapter 5 CHAPTER V THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE Y?TR?; Chapter 6 CHAPTER VI THE BENGALI DRAMA IN NEP?L; Chapter 7 CHAPTER VII THE ANTIQUITY OF THE THEATRE IN INDIA; Part 2 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MODERN BENGALI DRAMA; Chapter 8 CHAPTER VIII THE NEW ERA; Chapter 9 CHAPTER IX THE EUROPEAN THEATRES AND THEIR EARLY IMITATORS; Chapter 10 CHAPTER X ENGLISH PLAYS PRODUCED BY BENGALIS; Chapter 11 CHAPTER XI THE FIRST BENGALI PLAY; Chapter 12 CHAPTER XII “KUL?N-KUL-SARBASVA”; Chapter 13 CHAPTER XIII SANSKRIT PLAYS; Chapter 14 CHAPTER XIV R?M N?R?YA? TARKARATNA (1823–85); Part 3 THE BENGALI THEATRES; Chapter 15 CHAPTER XV THE BELG?CHHI? THEATRE; Chapter 16 CHAPTEE XVI MICHAEL MADHU S?DAN DATTA (1824–73); Chapter 17 CHAPTER XVII THE RIVALS OF THE BELG?CHHI? THEATEE; Part 4 THE AGE OF GIR?? CHANDRA GHO?; Chapter 18 CHAPTER XVIII THE EARLY ACTIVITIES OF GIR?? CHANDRA GHO?; Chapter 19 CHAPTER XIX THE NATIONAL THEATRE; Chapter 20 CHAPTER XX D?NA BANDHU MITRA (1829–73); Chapter 21 CHAPTER XXI THE SUCCESSORS OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE; Chapter 22 CHAPTER XXII THE ART AND PRACTICE OF GIR?? CHANDRA GHOS; Part 5 DVIJENDRA L?L R?Y AND HIS TIMES; Chapter 23 CHAPTER XXIII THE SVADE?? ?NDOLAN; Chapter 24 CHAPTER XXIV NATIONALISM IN LITERATURE AND DRAMA; Chapter 25 CHAPTER XXV THE NATIONALISM OF DVIJENDRA L?L R?Y; Chapter 26 CHAPTER XXVI THE PLAYS OF DVIJENDRA L?L R?Y; Part 6 RAB?NDRA N?TH TAGORE; Chapter 27 CHAPTER XXVII HIS EARLIER DRAMAS; Chapter 28 CHAPTER XXVIII HIS SYMBOLICAL DRAMAS; Chapter 29 CHAPTER XXIX HIS DRAMATIC ART; Part 7 CONCLUSION; Chapter 30 Chapter XXX THE OUTLOOK; BIBLIOGRAPHY; play PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS; INDEX;
Biography
P. Guha-Thakurta, Reader in English, Lucknow University.
