Theatres of India: A Concise Companion (Oxford India Collection (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195699173 ISBN 13: 9780195699173

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Theatres of India, edited by Professor Ananda Lal, is a comprehensive and accessible guide to theatre in India. The volume surveys both rural and urban modes of Indian theatre across its history of over 2000 years. The first section brings together entries that discuss theatres of India's linguistic regions. The second section includes entries on specific forms and genres, as well as on topics such as street theatre, music, and Tagore's dramatic oeuvre.

The book avoids both the Western scholarship's obsession with traditional Asian forms of performance, as well as Indian city-based theatre workers' view that traditional forms do not even qualify as 'theatre'. 'Theatre' in this volume is defined as any form that contains theatre's fundamental element, acting. Importantly, the entries are accompanied by photographs of performances that allow us to view the 'visual-ness' of India's performance forms.

In keeping with the highest standards of international reference publishing, Ananda Lal has compiled and edited material from several contributors so that each entry allows us to tap individual documentation and knowledge. Also included in this pioneering, authoritative, and collective resource are short bibliographies for every entry on the regional theatres. Theatres of India will be useful for general readers, theatre professionals, as well as students and researchers of theatre and performance studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Ananda Lal Is Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He also directs and translates, and is theatre critic with The Telegraph, Kolkata.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195699173
• ISBN 13: 9780195699173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Lal Ananda