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Published by Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 1995
ISBN 10: 8121506794ISBN 13: 9788121506793
Seller: Books in my Basket, New Delhi, India
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Hardcover. Condition: New. 194pp.
Published by Munshiram Manoharlal Pub, 1994
ISBN 10: 8121506794ISBN 13: 9788121506793
Seller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
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In 1963 Lionel Abels book Metatheatre. A New View of Dramatic Form was published. The basic idea of metatheater is that of multiple layers of illusion. The prefix meta here suggests beyond above or within. Metatheater in one of its senses can be viewed as one make believe dramatic world superimposed upon another make believe dramatic world. Or as one dramatic world framed within another dramatic world. The most easily understandable example of this relationship is the play within the play. The question might be asked what relevance such a recent topic of literary criticism in the West would have to a study of ancient Sanskrit drama. Each of the six essays in Part One of this book provides an effective answer. In the sixth essay a translation is given of the passage in the Abhinavabharati wherein Abhinavagupta comments on the term natyayita. Remarkably this ancient Sanskrit term is most appropriately translated by the freshly minted English word metatheater And it is through an understanding of this 30 year old English term metatheater that one is able to obtain a revealing insight into what Abhinava was saying one thousand years ago about natyayita a term used on Sarira Abhinaya and illustrated by Abhinava with a reference to Subandhus play Vasavadatta Natyadhara. The first five essays illustrate how profoundly a knowledge of the metadramatic structure of Sanskrit plays will affect the way in which they are to be understood and translated. Part Two of this book presents the text and translation of and commentary on two Sanskrit faces which were written in the seventh century A.D. by the South Indian king Mahendravarman. These two plays superbly illustrate the multi dimensional splendor of metatheater in Sanskrit drama. 140 pp.
Published by South Asia Books, 1995
ISBN 10: 8121506794ISBN 13: 9788121506793
Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Very Good Dust Jacket may be missing.CDs may be missing. book.